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Book · 1982 · Fiction

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende
Dial Press (Penguin Random House) · 433 pages
★ 5.7 editorial score

Clara predicts the future and moves furniture without touching it, while three generations of her family reach from the era of the great estates to the 1973 coup that comes for them.

Genre
Magic realismPost-colonial literatureFamily saga
Medium
Novel
Subject
FamilyPoliticsMagic
Setting
Chile
Time
1982Depicts 20th century

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