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Eva Luna | 
 enlarge | Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 162766
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0553280589
Dewey Decimal Number: 863
EAN: 9780553280586
ASIN: 0553280589
Publication Date: June 1, 1989
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An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of acontemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed Americanteller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh realitythrough the creative power of her own imagination...
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 enchanting eva luna June 5, 2008
The novel Eva Luna by Isabel Allende combines magical realism with a plot that is sure to please if given a chance. With a background filling beginning, Eva Luna's life unfolds in front of the reader's eyes as she struggles to survive in an unnamed Latin American country full of political strife. The plot of the novel is interesting as Eva Luna travels and tells her stories to whomever will listen to them. Eva Luna's story captivates the reader as she tells of how she had been conceived on her father's death bed and how she had almost died at birth. The novel is full of sexual scenes and includes a transvestite named Mimi as well. Although the beginning of the novel was not as compelling as it could have been, the remainder of the novel was enchanting with it's humor and spell-bounding plot. House of Spirits is completely different than Eva Luna in many ways because in Eva Luna, the story of one woman's life is told in completion rather than having the lives of many people told at one time. If you have been intrigued by House of Spirits, Eva Luna is a great novel to read but it is more aimed towards a mature audience. Isabel Allende is a truly fantastic author while intertwining magic into a truly entertaining story and making it flow simultaneously.
 Allende Rocks April 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Allende's characters and her writing. Zorro was my first read of hers and I have purchased everything. I get very involved in the story and characters. Her trilogy for kids is in my library and is checked out all of the time. Good writing is good writing.
 This is the ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION March 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do not be fooled by the first sentence being shown in Spanish above (as I was). This is the English language version of Eva Luna, and Amazon mistakenly put the first sentence of the Spanish version by the title. I know this is not a review of the book, but I would like to prevent someone else from making the mistake I did and ending up paying almost the full price of the book in shipping charges to try to return it and get the correct version.
Interesting Novel November 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This novel is a romantic one. The romance starts nearly at the end of the book, but it's a very good novel. It will make you laugh and make you amazed!!! Although, it's magic realism, you should try keep an open mind. It's a different book that's all. But you'll love it!!!
Eva Luna October 30, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to remember that as much as I like the concept of "magical realism" I, for the most part, don't like the genre. I can think of two books I have actually enjoyed: Macunaima by Mario de Andrade and The Yellow Sofa by Eca De Queiros. Most of the time the genre leaves me cold, confused and somewhat bored. There are often too many tangents and too much extraneous detail: Eva Luna has these problems.
I wanted to read Eva Luna after having enjoyed Daughter of Fortune back in 2003 and having had a moderate enjoyment of Zorro in 2005, although I had felt the author hadn't really understood the character. While there are some beautifully written passages in Eva Luna they didn't flow together to create a feeling of a coherent story or a plot that was actually going somewhere. Nor, though, did it feel like it was written strictly as a mood piece. Poor Eva seemed to be forced to tread water in the middle of all that flowing prose, bobbing her head up whenever the story required her to be present in a scene.
Eva Luna starts as a memoir of an illegitimate daughter of a maid and an indian. While Eva Luna continues to narrate the story of her life, she is but a passive witness to a disparate group of odd balls who end up becoming political revolutionaries. Their stories are so much more interesting than Luna's. Her constant rambling drags down the story and her role in all of this beyond reporter and maybe lover isn't clear.
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