The Stories of Eva Luna

By Isabel Allende

Book Overview

Told in the voice of Isabel Allende's beloved character Eva Luna, a "distinctive, powerful, and haunting" (Los Angeles Times) collection of short fiction by one of the most iconic and acclaimed writers of our time.Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carl , Eva answers his request for a story "you have never told anyone before" with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion, and the strengths of women, creating a world that is at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new. Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely magical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is the cornerstone of Allende's work. This treasure trove of brilliantly crafted stories is a superb example of a writer working at the height of her powers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501117130
• ISBN13: 9781501117138
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A winner for Teachers, Guided Reading Classes, Reading and Conference.

This volume takes a lot of the work out of guided reading or reading and conference classes for advanced students of Spanish. There are discussion questions before and after and grammatical review after each story. The stories are excellent---she has a nice style, exploring male/female relationships with humor and irony.

Cuentos de Eva Luna

La cuentista mas elocuente de America se luce una vez mas con este libro - cuentos magicos y sensuales. Historias maravillosas - escritas de tal manera que te envuelven, elevan y transportan a otro tiempo. Lectura requerida para todas las mujeres que como la escritora aceptamos, asumimos y disfrutamos plenamente nuestra condicion de mujer.

Great avenue to discover the magic of Allende

Having never read Allende before, I found this book in my hotel room in San Diego and flying back home, I devoured it as flew home. It is a magical, intoxicating book that has allowed me to discover the wonderful world woven by the word magic of Allende. In here we discover Eva Luna and her mother and their odd, surreal world in South America and their odd, numbing stories with Indians, revolutionaries, mad English doctors, Arab seductresses and a light-eyed storyteller with an incredible lifestory!

Exellent crafstmanship

After 10 years of not reading a book in Spanish, this one was the first one tackled. Inside I found stories which moves the heart and the incidents are intewoven in the most fascinating ways. Cheers !

a beautiful & fantastical novel that touches & teaches

Eva Luna is one of the best contemporary novels I have read. It is absolutely irresistable--I dreamt about Eva throughout the day when I could not read about her. Reading this book is akin setting sail at sea on a large ship--I truly loved it and I think that Allende is a genious. It is as magical as "100 Years of Solitude" and I recommend it for anyone who enjoys reading.