Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist, is tremendously well known for her novels filled with magical realism, political and feminist matters, and fiction.

All of her novels are enormously different yet, they contain the same components that qualify them as interesting, breathtaking, and out of the ordinary.

To begin, the incredible application of magical realism in each of her novels, locates together the surreal and real world. In a way, Allende, is successfully able to adapt these two worlds in one to create the atmosphere in which all of her characters evolve and keep growing to become a great part of the novel, like in The House of the Spirits, where numerous characters are introduced but only a few are kept alive until the end of the novel, like Esteban Trueba, who dies at the end, yet keeps alive the sparkle and magical touch of the novel by narrating the entire story.

Moreover, Allende also makes a great and wonderful application of political and feminist issues in most of her novels. She is amazingly able to build the story according to what is truly happening in real life, like, once again, in The House of the Spirits, which started as a letter for Allende’s grandfather, who was dying at that time, and later on became the her first book; but it also contains many events that happened in Chile while politics were grave. Allende explains that many of the characters in the book represent real personas form her family, which again, gives the book that realism it includes. And, not only does Allende present political issues, but she also assures to include the strong and feminist women in each of her books.

Furthermore, Allende’s books are all overflowing with fiction. They truly represent of what is real and what is not, like in her book Of Love and Shadows, where fiction thrives throughout the novel or in Eva Luna or The Infinite Plan. There is no one of Allende’s novels that do not contain at least a little of fiction, at the end, it is what makes them all great and interesting.

Thus, Isabel Allende’ writing style is overflowing with magical realism, political and feminist issues, and fiction. And these three characteristics of each of her novels, make all of them magnificent and they have also captivated every reader all round the world.