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Isabel Allende Isabel Allende
 

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende won widespread recognition with her first novel, La casa de los espíritos (1982; The House of the Spirits, 1985). This family chronicle is set against a turbulent background of political and economic change in Latin America.
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Latin American Literature; Chile; Allende, Isabel
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