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Isabel Allende’s The House Of The Spirits is not an easy book to capture in a few words. It is a sprawling, layered read that spans generations, flitting between reality and magic with that deliberate ease that has become associated so strongly with Latin American writers – Allende and the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Elena Garro, are often referred to as the originators of the “magic realism” genre of writing.