The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende • 1982
Devastation Rating
family literary fiction political historical trauma
Our Take
Three generations of the Trueba family and the political becoming personal in the most brutal ways. Allende writes magical realism as a technique for surviving horror — the spirits are gentler than the generals. The coup arrives and the novel becomes a document of atrocity.
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