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Allende, Isabel. Casa de los espíritus

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Personal name headingAllende, Isabel. Casa de los espíritus
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Variant(s)Allende, Isabel. House of the spirits
Form of workFiction
Beginning date1981
Place of originCaracas (Venezuela)
CharacteristicMagic realism (Literature)
Found inLa casa de los espíritus, 1982.
Cox, Karen Castellucci. Isabel Allende, 2003: p. 4-5 (Allende moved to Caracas, Venezuela in 1975 and lived there for the next 13 years; in 1981 Allende began writing a fictionalized version of stories she had heard growing up, which became a 500 page manuscript that was published in Spain in 1982, The house of the spirits) p. 29 (magical realism literary style; tells the story of a multi-generational family living in an unnamed South American country made into a movie called The house of the spirits)