EntertainmentIsabel Allende celebrates her 80th birthday and the 40th anniversary of 'The House of the Spirits'

Isabel Allende celebrates her 80th birthday and the 40th anniversary of ‘The House of the Spirits’

It’s been 40 years since Isabel Allende published her first novel, “The House of the Spirits,” and Penguin Random House plans to celebrate with a commemorative edition that will include a foreword by the Chilean author.

The publishing group will publish on October 13 the new edition of the success that launched the prolific literary career of Allende, today the most widely read living writer in the Spanish language in the world, it was announced Wednesday in a statement.

“This book had the effect of a typhoon on me: it lifted me up into the air, shook me to the bone, ripped me out of a mediocre existence and launched me into an open horizon of infinite possibilities,” Allende said in the letter. “In the forty years since then I have suffered loss, pain and grief, I have changed countries and husbands, I have also accumulated much success, which usually upsets people, but nothing has made me lose my center, because writing is my compass. Everything that hurts me ends up transmuted in the alchemy of literature”.

The mythical novel will be available in Spain, Latin America and the United States, in Spanish, in print, digital and audiobook formats.

The announcement came less than a week before Allende’s 80th birthday, on August 2. The writer was born in 1942 in Peru and spent her early childhood in Chile. After the military coup of 1973, she went into exile in Venezuela. Since 1987, she has lived as an immigrant in California.

Allende has published 25 books, all international successes, which have been translated into more than 40 languages. His most recent, the novel “Violeta”, has been on the best-selling book lists in Latin America and Spain for months.

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