Six spirits are enough for fun

House of Spirits, novel for the Chilean author Isabel Allende, which she wrote in 1982. And the author began composing this novel when she received news about her ninety-year-old grandfather's illness and approaching his death. The beginning of the events of the novel takes place at the end of the nineteenth century, in a city with no name, in South America. It narrates the events of a Terebba family, their romances, ambitions, spiritual appeals, their relationships with each other, and their role in the events of their time and history, a history that became a fate that surpassed all of them. This novel was adapted cinematically into a film in 1993. Since its publication, it swept the markets and achieved the highest sales. In fact, this story is what brought its author to fame. The author received the Panorama Literature Award for this novel, and it has been translated into nearly thirty languages! Some critics believe that this novel has social and political dimensions, while others see it as recounting real events with some imagination.