Eva Luna | 
|  | | | Title: | Eva Luna | | Author: | Isabel Allende | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 June, 1989 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553280589 / 9780553280586 | | List Price: | $7.99 | | Amazon Price: | $7.99 | |
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An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination...
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Customer Reviews:
• This Is The English Language Version 21 March, 2007
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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3B630EI0FW7VP
• Interesting Novel 06 November, 2006
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!!!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A5CDMOSK470MD
• Enchanting Eva Luna 05 June, 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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1SWPW47KG9OM1
• Eva Luna 30 October, 2006
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: Macunaíma by Mário 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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1PXH6NS60C8V5
• Allende Rocks 06 April, 2007
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.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3239VA7N03FXM
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