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The Stories of Eva Luna Hardback - 1999

by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)

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Isabel Allende now ranks as one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna, in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love, and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. Her most ambitious novel up to that time, "Eva Luna" was described by the "Washington Post" as "a cascade of stories [that] tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human." Returning to this tale by popular demand, Allende unveiled "The Stories of Eva Luna" in 1991. A treasure trove of brilliantly crafted tales, the book showed us once again why "Eva Luna" and her much-celebrated creator have won such a large and devoted readership.

We begin with Rolf Carle, the European refugee, journalist, and lover who figured so largely in "Eva Luna." Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story. "What about?" she asks. "Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me." And so she does, giving Rolf Carle and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. Here are "compesinos" and rich people, guerrillas and fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants, the foreign rendered indelibly familiar. Here is Clarisa, "born before the city had electricity, she lived to see television coverage of the first astronaut levitating on the moon, and she died of amazement when the Pope came for a visit and was met in the street by homosexuals dressed up as nuns"; here is El Capitan, who waited for forty years before proposing to his dancing partner; Horacio Fortunato, a circus owner and entrepreneur, whose encounterwith a languid foreign woman will force him to change his roguish ways even as he attempts to court her; Maurizia Rugieri, who abandons her husband and child for a young medical student, converting their life together into an opera of her own design; Nicholas Vidal, who "had always known that a woman would cost him his life" but never suspected that it would be the wife of Judge Hidalgo; Raid Halbi, once again displaying his concern and wisdom for the people of Agua Santa; Marcia Liberman, the wife of a European diplomat, whose brief affair with the President for Life of an unnamed Latin American country has startling rewards...

Love, vengeance, nostalgia, compassion, irony -- Isabel Allende leaves no emotion untouched in these stories. Opulently imagined, stirringly told, they confirm her place as one of the world's leading writers.

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  • Title The Stories of Eva Luna
  • Author Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Scribner Cla
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Publication date 1999
  • ISBN 9780684873596 / 0684873591
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.3 x 1.06 in (24.18 x 16.00 x 2.69 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00267641
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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