Here are compesinos and rich people, guerrillas and fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants, the foreign rendered indelibly familiar. Make it up for me.' And so she does, giving Rolf Carlé and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. 'Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story.

We begin with Rolf Carlé, the European refugee, journalist, and lover who figured so largely in Eva Luna. A treasure trove of brilliantly crafted tales, the book showed us once again why Eva Luna and her much-celebrated creator have won such a large and devoted readership. Her most ambitious novel up to that time, Eva Luna was described by the Washington Post as 'a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human.' Returning to this tale by popular demand, Allende unveiled The Stories of Eva Luna in 1991. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna, in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love, and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. ‘Enchanting, magnificent.Isabel Allende now ranks as one of the world's most beloved authors.

‘Arresting and altogether distinctive**, powerful and haunting** a collection to be read aloud and repeated for generations’Los Angeles Times Perfectly crafted and thematically rich’ Barbara Kingsolver ‘Eva Luna’s stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry.

Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely lyrical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is a cornerstone of Isabel Allende’s work, and in her character Eva Luna she creates a modern-day Scheherazade. 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. Lying in bed with her lover, European refugee and journalist Rolf Carlé, Eva answers his request for a story ‘you have never told anyone before’ with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE LOVERĪ captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our timeĮva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love.

Stories of eva luna