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Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history.

In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation’s history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people’s joys and anguishes wholly our own.

伊莎貝爾·阿連德（Isabel Allende，1942－）,她齣身智利的名門世傢，薩爾瓦多·阿連德總統是她的伯父。她在一個奇妙的大傢庭長大，外祖母為她打開瞭探索神秘世界的心靈之門。 1973年，智利發生流血政變事件，她踏上流亡之路。 1981年，99歲的外祖父決定絕食自殺，她寫給他一封長信，這就是《幽靈之傢》。 1992年，29歲的愛女因病去世。她用文字讓自己變得更堅強。