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Eva Luna

Eva Luna

by Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Isabel Allende (Author)

Synopsis

Allende is a wonderful teller of tales and through the story of Eva Luna we enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 29 Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 0140244425
ISBN 13: 9780140244427

Media Reviews
& quot; Imaginative, original, convincing, pointed, and spiced with good humor and wit.& quot; -- San Francisco Chronicle .
& quot; Remarkable... a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human... Allende seems to draw characters and tales from a bottomless well as Eva Luna narrates the story of her life.& quot; -- Washington Post Book World .
& quot; An epic tale... Eva matures and comes to love a Turkish merchant, a guerrilla fighter, and a German immigrant... [in] this romantic confection of a novel.& quot; -- People

From the Paperback edition.
Imaginative, original, convincing, pointed, and spiced with good humor and wit. -- San Francisco Chronicle .

Remarkable... a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human... Allende seems to draw characters and tales from a bottomless well as Eva Luna narrates the story of her life. -- Washington Post Book World .

An epic tale... Eva matures and comes to love a Turkish merchant, a guerrilla fighter, and a German immigrant... [in] this romantic confection of a novel. -- People


From the Paperback edition.

An exotic dance that beguiles and entices. -- San Francisco Chronicle

Remarkable . . . [Isabel] Allende seems to draw characters and tales from a bottomless well as Eva Luna narrates the story of her life. . . . Vivid and passionate and human. -- The Washington Post Book World

With vivid imagery, Eva Luna transports the reader to an almost mythic continent where magical happenings are everyday events. -- The Christian Science Monitor

Sumptuous . . . Allende's canvas is large, busy, full of feeling, incident and rich detail. -- Chicago Tribune

There is a richness of language, image, and adventure that flows effortlessly. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author Bio
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is the author of the worldwide bestseller The House of Spirits, as well as the equally successful novels Of Love and Shadows and The Stories of Eva Luna. Initially a journalist, Allende began writing fiction in 1981. She now lives in California.