The Stories of Eva Luna (1989)

by Isabel Allende

Series: Eva Luna (book 2)

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Ventitré racconti, storie di passione e violenza . Questo libro mi e’ piaciuto per la sua capacità di tratteggiare situazioni e personaggi a tinte e forti . In certi casi sembra una continuazione ideale di Eva Luna, anche se si tratta di racconti. L’ ho riletto un paio di volte e mi e’ sempre piaciuto (

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mara4m | Jun 8, 2011 |

These richly entertaining stories have many passionate full-blooded heroines and lots of interesting twists. If you like short stories where nothing much happens overtly and the action is subtle, perhaps even barely perceptible, these are not the stories for you. So many of the stories are the literary equivalents of full body slams that it would be difficult to read them in quick succession. You at least have to stop and catch your breath before moving on the the next one. (

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bkinetic | Feb 7, 2011 |

These short stories were published three years after Isabel Allende's novel Eva Luna and extend her protagonist's abilities as a story teller in the style of Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights. Allende is a magical realist writer whose stories are sensuous and languid with strong female characters. It's been quite a time since I read this so I have little recall of the details of the stories. But I remember them as being typically South American with that sense of ever expanding time and the undertow of tradition overlaid with both poverty and fading grandeur. (

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dylanwolf | Mar 22, 2010 |

This is only the second collection of short stories that I've ever read in order, cover to cover, if that tells you anything. (

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donp | Nov 17, 2008 |

I didn't finish it. I just don't like these short stories like I liked her novels.

missmath144 | Mar 5, 2008 |

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Eva Luna (book 2)

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The Stories of Eva Luna

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Cuentos de Eva Luna

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1989

1991 (Hamish Hamilton)

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Eva Luna

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1991)

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The King ordered the Grand Vizier to bring him a virgin every night, and when the night was over, he ordered her to be killed. And thus it had happened for three years, and in all the city there was no damsel left to withstand the assaults of this rider. But the vizier had a daughter of great beauty, named Scheherazade ... and she was very eloquent, and pleased all who heard her.

A Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights

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For William Gordon, for times shared.

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You untied your sash, kicked off your sandals, tossed your full skirt into the corner - it was cotton, if I remember - and loosened the clasp that held your hair in a ponytail.

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Gli Elefanti Garzanti

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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. Retruning 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 Carle, Eva answers hes 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 strenghts of women, creating a world that is at once poingnantly 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 conerstone 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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Eva Luna la revolucionaria cuenta 23 relatos sobre guerrilleros y nigromantes, seductoras y tiranos, diplom�ticos, y acr�batas.

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