More about the book
'Fantastic, sexy and sometimes macabre. A latter-day Scheherazade, a true descendant of the skalds, a Teller of Tales. Extraordinary' Guardian Eva Luna, entwined with her lover in bed, is asked to tell him a story 'you have never told anyone before'. As she relates a tale of twenty-three interwoven parts, she knits a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and landscape of South America. Here are guerillas and fortune-tellers, tyrants and great beauties, whores and peasants. These are stories of poverty and politics, passion and pain, tragedy and comedy, all gloriously imagined by one of the world's most captivating storytellers. 'Like a plate of hors-d'oeuvres, each one tempting, some as exquisite as caviare. Stunning' New York Times Book Review'Vital and compelling' The Times'Enchanting, magnificent. Absolute magic on every level' Cosmopolitan
Book purchase
The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
- Language
- Released
- 2011
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Isabel Allende
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 227
- ISBN10
- 0241952883
- ISBN13
- 9780241952887
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Short Stories, USA, Realistic Fiction, Stories, Spanish Literature, Magical Realism, Genealogy, Latin American Literature, South America, Mexico, Chile, Hippies, Chilean Literature
- First published
- 1987
- Original title
- Cuentos de Eva Luna
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 'Fantastic, sexy and sometimes macabre. A latter-day Scheherazade, a true descendant of the skalds, a Teller of Tales. Extraordinary' Guardian Eva Luna, entwined with her lover in bed, is asked to tell him a story 'you have never told anyone before'. As she relates a tale of twenty-three interwoven parts, she knits a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and landscape of South America. Here are guerillas and fortune-tellers, tyrants and great beauties, whores and peasants. These are stories of poverty and politics, passion and pain, tragedy and comedy, all gloriously imagined by one of the world's most captivating storytellers. 'Like a plate of hors-d'oeuvres, each one tempting, some as exquisite as caviare. Stunning' New York Times Book Review'Vital and compelling' The Times'Enchanting, magnificent. Absolute magic on every level' Cosmopolitan