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Original Title:	Cuentos de Eva Luna
ISBN:	0743217187 (ISBN13: 9780743217187)
Edition Language:	English

The Stories of Eva Luna Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Isabel Allende is one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Returning to this tale, Allende presents The Stories of Eva Luna, a treasure trove of brilliantly crafted stories. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carlé, 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 the sumptuously imagined, uniquely magical style of one of the world's most stunning writers, The Stories of Eva Luna is the cornerstone of Allende's work. It is not to be missed by anyone -- whether a devotee of Ms. Allende's oeuvre or a new acquaintance to her work.

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Title	:	The Stories of Eva Luna
Author	:	Isabel Allende
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	November 13th 2001 by Scribner (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Magical Realism. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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The Stories of Eva Luna - The Judge's Wife "Gossiping tongues had it that Judge Hidalgo turned inside out like a glove." The Stories of Eva Luna - Interminable Life "There are all kinds of stories. Some are born with the telling; their substance is language, and before someone puts them into words they are but a hint of emotion, a caprice of mind, an image, or an intangible recollection. Others are manifest whole, like an apple, and can be repeated infinitely without risk of altering their

In the Prologue to this wonderful collection, Eva Luna's lover urges her to "...tell me a story. Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me." And Eva, Scheherezade-like, complies with twenty-three short, vivid tales that are each more exquisite than the last. The stories are sensual and richly descriptive, and they deal with eternal themes: greed, revenge, the memories of first love suppressed, aging, death. They're written in the "magic realism" style of Gabriel Garcia

The book "The Stories of Eva Luna" by, Isabel Allende was amazing. I loved how the author divided many short stories and put it all in one book. These stories gave me various and mixed emotions. However my favorite story "Wicked Girl" was in the beginning of the book. This story shocked me because I never thought of any conflict in a relationship the way the author described it. The conflict in this story was that a man stayed over a hotel and was sensuous with the owner. The daughter of the

Started last night... I rescued this book from the local transfer station(dump) used goods trailer. Never read any of this author's work but I've heard of her of course. Niece(once removed) of Salvador, socialist President of Chile. It didn't end well, of course. Chile, the craziest country in the world geography-wise. A thousand miles long and a hundred wide(more or less). Inside the front cover is a sticker that say's "Ex libris" above the nib of a fountain pen and in small print below the

A load of shit. This short story collection by Allendes is full of characters lifted from other writers and folklores, except they're placed in completely boring scenarios, uttering completely cliched banality. It is soap-opera exoticism and a waste of time. Read Garcia-Marquez's collected short stories for something with actual imagination.Take for instance, its first story about the little orphan girl who writes poems and stories for a living, traveling from town to town in her war-torn

First, read "Eva Luna." Then read this volume of short stories that range from the outrageously erotic to astoundingly delightful to downright melancholy. The stories, each of which is a little treasure in its own right, are so intense that I found I could only read one or two at a sitting to fully appreciate them. Author Isabel Allende was born to tell stories!The premise of this book is based on the novel "Eva Luna," the fantastical story of a poverty-stricken girl living in an unnamed South

Taking off from the book "Eva Luna", ......Eva's lover, Rolf Carle --( A photojournalist), writes to Eva asking her to tell him stories. In the prologue, Carle tells Eva, that he thinks in the frozen images of a photograph--but she- Eva- thinks in words. .....So.... while Eva is lying in bed with her European lover, the refugee from Austria, tells him 23 stories. Isabel Allende is a 'skilled storytelling'... she portrays a world in which the ordinary and the miraculous come together