The Spirits | The House Of

The novel traces the lives of the Trueba family over approximately seventy years, from the early 1910s to the 1970s.

Report: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ( La Casa de los Espíritus ), published in 1982, is the debut novel by Chilean-American author Isabel Allende. It is a multi-generational family saga that blends magical realism with the turbulent political history of an unnamed Latin American country, widely recognized as mirroring Chile . Originally conceived as a farewell letter to her dying 100-year-old grandfather, the manuscript evolved into an epic narrative spanning four generations of the Trueba family. Core Narrative and Plot Summary The House of the Spirits