The Stories of Eva Luna

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INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE JAPANESE LOVER
A captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our time

Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her lover, European refugee and journalist Rolf Carl, Eva answers his 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 female power, depicting worlds that are at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new.

Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely lyrical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is a cornerstone of Isabel Allendes work, and in her character Eva Luna she creates a modern-day Scheherazade.

'Eva Luna's stories are delicate, their imagesakin to poetry . . . Perfectly craftedand thematically rich' Barbara Kingsolver

'Vital and compelling'The Times

'Arresting and altogether distinctive, powerful and haunting; a collection to be read aloud and repeated for generations'Los Angeles Times

'Enchanting, magnificent. Absolute magic on every level' Cosmopolitan

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'Eva Lunas stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry ... And, like poetry, this prose requires careful attention' -- Barbara Kingsolver
'Vital and compelling' * The Times *
'Arresting and altogether distinctive, powerful and haunting; a collection to be read aloud and repeated for generations' * Los Angeles Times *
'Enchanting, magnificent. Absolute magic on every level' * Cosmopolitan *

Author Bio

Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a novelist, feminist, and philanthropist. She is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than eighty million copies of her twenty-eight books across forty-two languages. She is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books, includingThe Wind Knows My Name,The House of the Spirits,Of Love and Shadows,andEva Luna. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, and in 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California with her husband and dogs. You can visit Isabel Allende atIsabelAllende.comor follow her on Instagram @AllendeIsabel, on Facebook atFacebook.com/IsabelAllende, and on X @IsabelAllende.