The House of the Spirits: Introduced by Christopher Hitchens (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Chilean writer Isabel Allendes classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American countrys 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 familys 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 nations history thrillingly to life but also makes its peoples joys and anguishes wholly our own. Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction a select bibliography and a chronology of the authors life and times.