by Isabel Allende · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140118360
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«Eva Luna» is Isabel Allende's magic realist novel, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Eva Luna, an orphan born into poverty in a fictional South American country, makes her way in life thanks to her gift for telling stories. Amid singular characters and political upheaval, imagination becomes her tool to resist and transform destiny, with the author's epic prose and magic realism.
Isabel Allende's third novel, originally published in 1987 and recognized with the American Book Award in 1989. This Penguin edition dates from 1990.
A work for readers of literary fiction and Latin American narrative, for both new readers of Allende and her followers.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
