by Isabel Allende · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140244427
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«Eva Luna» is the novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The novel narrates the life of Eva Luna, a young woman born into poverty who is orphaned at an early age. Over the years she crosses paths with various characters and discovers that telling stories allows her to transform a harsh reality. The everyday and the fabulous merge in the narrative, with love, loss and identity as its axes.
The original novel was published in 1987; this translation by Margaret Sayers Peden was published in 1994.
Reading for fans of contemporary fiction and magical realism; the indicated reading range is 14 to 18 years.
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.
