Dedication and signature of the author, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985. First American Edition, Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Book in very good condition, dust jacket slightly worn.

With The House of the Spirits begins Isabel Allende's effort to rescue the memory of the past, through the history of three generations of Chileans from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1970s. The axis of the saga is constituted by Esteban Txueba, a humble miner who manages to prosper based on tenacity and becomes one of the most powerful landowners. After his frustrated marriage with Rosa, who was poisoned by mistake, he marries another sister, Clara, incompetent for things of a domestic order but endowed with a strange clairvoyance: she is capable of interpreting dreams and predicting the future with surprising accuracy.