Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.

伊莎貝爾·阿連德（Isabel Allende，1942－）,她齣身智利的名門世傢，薩爾瓦多·阿連德總統是她的伯父。她在一個奇妙的大傢庭長大，外祖母為她打開瞭探索神秘世界的心靈之門。 1973年，智利發生流血政變事件，她踏上流亡之路。 1981年，99歲的外祖父決定絕食自殺，她寫給他一封長信，這就是《幽靈之傢》。 1992年，29歲的愛女因病去世。她用文字讓自己變得更堅強。