The House of the Spirits: Introduced by Christopher Hitchens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781400043187)

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history.

In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation's history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people's joys and anguishes wholly our own.

Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN-10: 1400043182
ISBN-13: 9781400043187
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2005
Pages: 520
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.32w x 1.13d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.4
Point Value: 32
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 58067 / House of the Spirits