{"product_id":"casa-de-los-espiritus-la","title":"The House of the Spirits","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Allende's first novel, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, tells the saga of a powerful family of Latin American landowners.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe despotic patriarch Esteban Trueba has built a private empire with an iron fist that begins to falter with the passage of time and an explosive social environment. Finally, the patriarch's personal decadence will drag the Truebas into a painful disintegration. Trapped in dramatic family relationships, the characters of this powerful novel embody the social and spiritual tensions of an era that spans much of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith impeccable narrative pulse and great historical lucidity, Isabel Allende has created a fresco in which the everyday coexists with the marvelous, love with revolution, and personal ideals with harsh political reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A unique achievement, at once a personal testimony and a possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A strong and absorbing chronicle of a Chilean family, with opulent details and a mystical background... A refined combination of settings.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There are very few journeys more exciting than those made in the imagination of a brilliant novelist. That experience is available in Isabel Allende's \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Allende's writing is so creative, entertaining, and compelling that in the process of creating a stimulating political novel she has also created a vivid and captivating work of art. Her characters are fascinatingly detailed and human.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A seductive, sometimes magical tale... In its tumultuous history of rebellion and love across three generations, it is an allegory in which any family should be able to recognize a bit of themselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Absolutely stunning. In \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e, Isabel Allende has shown us the relationship between past and present, family and nation, city and country, spiritual and political values.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isabel Allende","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536094200056,"sku":"9788483462034","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/casa-de-los-espiritus-la-allende-isabel-991150.jpg?v=1696462554","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/casa-de-los-espiritus-la","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}