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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magic realist tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called the world's most widely read Spanish-language author. In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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The house of the spirits

Isabel Allende - Publisher : Bantam Books

Publisher presentation: The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair...
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To not die of boredom	Spring	For all	fairly easy to read	Classic modern	Between 10 and 20$
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