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Eva Luna

Written by: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Timothy Andrés Pabon
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“A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times best-selling author Isabel Allende introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all, a storyteller - available for the first time in audiobook.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snakebitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her.

In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces listeners to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.

As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation - the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated - in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.

©2015 Isabel Allende (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

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A Tribute to Story

In this book, Isabelle Allende's weaves the stories of her characters with originality, compassion and spirit. She links the events of the 20th century world in a way that suspends disbelief and shows how truly we are all connected to each other. It's hard not to love all of her characters, with their great capacities for love on one hand and their human frailties and foibles on the other.

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