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"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.

En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su pa s a trav s de la memoria y la imaginaci n.

La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nost lgico lter ego de la autora, que se llama a s misma «ladrona de... Read Full Overview

An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination...

Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ileg timo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problem tico director de pel culas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna... Read Full Overview

Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling.

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's 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... Read Full Overview

'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into... Read Full Overview