![]() ![]() Many of the stories build on the intricate attachments of unlikely lovers, such as a dictator and the foreign woman he abducts or a criminal and a judge's wife. A simple lyricism evokes European emigres to South America social climbers outlaws schoolteachers Indians a nearly indefatigable imagination explores the critical moments in these figures' lives. Allende's people are warm-blooded, original, memorable. Although other figures from that novel also reappear (for example, Eva Luna spins her stories at the request of her lover Rolf Carle), this collection is in no sense a sequel: indeed, each piece here can stand alone. ![]() The eponymous heroine of Eva Luna returns as the narrator of 23 tales, sumptuous marriages of Chilean writer Allende's earthy characters and her celestial version of magical realism. ![]()
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