9 Top literature books like The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin

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The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin

4.28

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle…

"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

If you liked the literature plot in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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  • magical realism
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
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"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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2. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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  • magical realism
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Cover of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas  Christensen

4. Like Water for Chocolate

By: Laura Esquivel , Carol Christensen , Thomas Christensen

3.95

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico becam… read more

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  • magical realism
  • spanish literature
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"Porque no quiero."

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone"

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"ما إن عانقها حتى اختلج جسدها كما الهلام"

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo."

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

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5. Love in the Time of Cholera

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventuall… read more

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  • magical realism
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  • historical fiction
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"I’ve remained a virgin for you."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"مايؤلمني في الموت هو ألا أموت حبا"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"Be calm. God awaits you at the door."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • literature
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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7. Travesuras de la niña mala

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

?Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que e… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • novels
  • latin american
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8. La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

By: Rosa Montero

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

<>ROSA MONTERO. Una narracion a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entr… read more

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9. The Infinite Plan

By: Isabel Allende

3.80

Format: None pages,

Quittant le monde sud-americain qui lui est familier, la romanciere de La Maison aux espritsnous en… read more

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10. My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)

By: Elena Ferrante

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, int… read more

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11. El túnel

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more

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12. Arráncame la vida

By: Ángeles Mastretta

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Arrancame la vida" is the first female interpretation of post-Revolutionary Mexico. With an enchan… read more

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13. Nada

By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • novels
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  • historical fiction
"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

14. The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

4.29

Format: None pages,

The international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwa… read more

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15. One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

4.12

Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more

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"Cease, cows, life is short."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Children inherit their parents' madness."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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16. The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin

4.28

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • historical
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

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17. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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  • fiction
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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18. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

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19. Del tiempo y sus demonios

By: Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón

4.52

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

DEL TIEMPO Y SUS DEMONIOS: PERSIGUIENDO LA VERDAD Esta novela se desarrolla en un pequeño y mist… read more

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20. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

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Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

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Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

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Mario Benedetti

4.18

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