Chile

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

Family & Heritage 1982

Summary

Four generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed South American country, from the early 20th century through a coup modelled on Pinochet's 1973 takeover of Chile. Allende began the novel as a letter to her dying grandfather.

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Isabel Allende

Chilean-American novelist (born 1942) who began her debut novel as a letter to her dying grandfather. A niece of assassinated Chilean president Salvador Allende, she went into exile after the 1973 coup and has lived in the United States since 1988.

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1982
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