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.
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. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. 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. Isabel Allende tells the sweet and sinister story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place."A remarkable novel" ( The Washington Post ) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge. Isabel Allende tells the sweet and sinister story of an orphan who beguiles the world. 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 the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.' 'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted.
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