Stories of EVA Luna, the - Softcover

Allende

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743217187 ISBN 13: 9780743217187

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Japanese Lover and one of the most beloved writers of our time, an intoxicating collection of short stories about love, compassion, irony, revenge, and female power. 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 Carle, 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.

About this title

Review:

"The Orlando Sentinel Full of grace and passion...love and revenge...enchanting...One could go on reading her stories forever.

"Chicago Sun-Times"

Instantly seductive, richly sensual, and unabashedly romantic.

"The Orlando Sentinel"

Full of grace and passion...love and revenge...enchanting...One could go on reading her stories forever.

"The Wall Street Journal"

Gratifyingly ambitious...truly captivating...There is a richness in this book -- and it is, in its finest moments, a richness not only of language but of life.

Leigh Allison Wilson

"The Washington Post"

Allende is a real talent, an amazingly prolific one. In her stories there are palpable life and death risks, the risks of passionate love, the risks of passionate belief, of convictions and honor.

"San Francisco Chronicle"

An extraordinary fictional potion.

"San Francisco Chronicle"

Allende again shows her brilliance as a storyteller...[who] grips us from first sentence to last.

"The San Diego Union"

Isabel Allende always revives one's faith in the intoxicating power of sheer old-fashioned storytelling.

Gillian Steward

"The Calgary Herald"

The stories are like opulent parables...I, for one, sense I will be going back to this book again and again just to be with them.

Sarah Sheard

"The Toronto Star"

The fabulous scale of narrative, the characters as darkly pungent as coffee tinged with blood, charge her stories with a physicality and power that will leave the readers checking for bruises on their thighs.

About the Author:

Isabel Allende is the author of "The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, The Infinite Plan, Aphrodite, Daughter of Fortune, " and the memoir "Paula." Her latest novel is "Portrait in Sepia." She lives in Northern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743217187
• ISBN 13: 9780743217187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352