Eva Luna
Eva Luna is a novel about a poor storyteller who weaves lives with words, written by Isabel Allende, the founder of Latin American magical realism. Published after the success of The House of the Spirits, this whirlwind of adventure combines love, revolut
Eva Luna, the daughter of the maid Consuelo conceived by a gardener after a snakebite, is born into poverty. Her mother dies quickly, leaving Eva with rich employers: a cook, the inventor of Universal Substance, and street vagrants. She meets Hubert Naranjo, a future guerrilla, and lives in a brothel with a trans woman Mimí, while police raids shatter her world. She is rescued by the Turkish merchant Riad Halabí in the village of Agua Santa, where she reads Zulemi stories, witnesses incest, and loses her virginity to Riad before the scandal.
In the city, amidst dictatorship and rebellion, Eva returns to Naranjo (now Commander Rogelio), begins a love affair with him, and lives with Mimí, now an actress. She writes scripts for telenovelas, meets Rolf Carlé, an Austrian cameraman with the trauma of a Nazi father, who films the revolution. Together, they participate in the rescue of guerrillas from Santa María prison using fake Universal Matter weapons, turning it into a public scandal. Eva and Rolf get married, and she offers two endings to their love – happy and sad, leaving the reader to choose.
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