Eva Luna

By Isabel Allende

Book Overview

"A remarkable novel" (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener--born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese migr who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.

As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation--the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated--in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501117084
• ISBN13: 9781501117084
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Very imaginitive!!

This book is a very different approach to writing...

Beautiful, an absolute winner!

This was the first South American writer that I have actually read...and wow! I was blown away by the lush imagery and the incredible characters. The way Ms. Allende wrote this was like a painting, it was so vivid. Eva Luna is an incredible symphony for the mind. I would recommend this to anyone.

BEAUTIFUL AND EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING

This amazing story of an orphan whose life seemed to have finished an expedition through the most enigmatic and most pleasurable world, is the novel that is to be never forgotten because of its amazing magic. Magic that will serve as your carpet ride through the most amazing story of a woman's life: Eva Luna's. Eva Luna, the sexy, naughty, adorable, beautiful woman is a shining proof of the existence of literature's wonders. Isabel Allende created a literary jewel.