Eva Luna: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
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Author: Isabel AllendeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0553383825
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: MY REVIEW
Summary: 4 Stars
Allende's use of magical realism in her book,Eva Luna,is highly redolent of the style of other Latin American writers of the same genre e.g Gabriel Garcia Marquez.However, unlike them,she gives her own unique touch to it,thereby creating sometHing fresh and seemingly new.
I enjoyed reading most of the book but felt the end was a bit rushed.That Eva should end up with Rolf Carle was not exactly prefigured.I somehow missed the subtle innuendos and other hidden messages one would expect would lead to both of them coming together.
However, Allende's evocation of imagery is stunning and her characters are fully formed and easily recognisable-Rogelio,the Turk,the Turk's wife who kills herself physically after an emotional demise, when her young lover departs.They are all people we see everyday , interact with and talk to.Infact, they are all of us, in a sense.
Summary of Eva Luna: A Novel
Conceived in an embrace designed to comfort a dying man, born to a servant and raised as a hired hand, Eva Luna learns quickly that she has a talent that belies her humble start: the gift of storytelling. As the years pass and her imprudent nature sends Eva from household to household?from the home of a doctor famed for mummifying the dead to a colorful whorehouse and the care of a beautiful transsexual?it is Eva?s magical imagination that keeps her alive and fuels her ardent encounters with lovers of all kinds. And as her South American homeland teeters on the brink of political chaos, and Eva?s fate is intertwined with guerrilla fighters and revolutionaries, she will find her life?s calling?and the soul mate who will envelop her in a love entirely beyond her mystical inventions.
Eva Luna is a literary triumph, a novel brimming with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions?and some of the most exquisite characters Isabel Allende has ever created.
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