The Stories of Eva Luna

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"Powerful and haunting... Stories to be read aloud, memorized and repeated for generations... If Allende's life, like Scheherazade's, actually depended on her narrative gifts, she'd not only survive, but reign" -Los Angeles Times "Enchanting...Magnificent...Absolute magic on every level!' -Cosmopolitan Isabel Allende continues to weave the magic of her critically acclaimed növel Eva Luna in this superb collection of 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 interwoven samples of her vibrant, enchanting artistry. Here are stories of peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyránts, seductresses and fortune tellers all rendered in the sumptuously imagined, uniquely magicai style of one of the world's finest, most stunningly originál writers. /f "Seductive, richly sensual and unabashedly romantic... laced with the distinctive language and magnetic... Tovább

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"Powerful and haunting... Stories to be read aloud, memorized and repeated for generations... If Allende's life, like Scheherazade's, actually depended on her narrative gifts, she'd not only survive, but reign" -Los Angeles Times "Enchanting...Magnificent...Absolute magic on every level!' -Cosmopolitan Isabel Allende continues to weave the magic of her critically acclaimed növel Eva Luna in this superb collection of 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 interwoven samples of her vibrant, enchanting artistry. Here are stories of peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyránts, seductresses and fortune tellers all rendered in the sumptuously imagined, uniquely magicai style of one of the world's finest, most stunningly originál writers. /f "Seductive, richly sensual and unabashedly romantic... laced with the distinctive language and magnetic puli of a natural storyteller!'-Chicago Sun-Times "Gratifyingly ambitious...truly captivating...There is a richness in this book-and it is, in "L, finest moments, a richness not only of langu^e, but of life!' -The Wall Street Journal "Allende again shows her brilliance as a storyteller.. [who] grips us from first sentence to last" -San Francisco Chronicle Vissza