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Size: 6x1x9; Signed by author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Loose front hinge. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned in a mylar cover.

Atheneum, 1991-01-23. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. The book has some writings done by previous owner and may have highlighting. However, the book is examined by our examination team and will not have any torn pages

New York. 1991. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0689121024. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 335 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Alicia Czecbowski. jacket design by Andy Bass. Handlettering by Carole Lowenstein. keywords: Latin America Chile Literature Women Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In 1988 Isabel Allende published EVA LUNA, a novel 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. Now in THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA, she again presents us with a treasure trove of such stories, showing us once more why Eva Luna (and her much-celebrated creator) has won such a large and devoted readership. inventory #10307

New York: Scribner. Very Good Very good 25 cm. Condition very good in golden boards with black cloth spine, DJ very good, clean tight copy 1st edition 1st printing. From Publishers Weekly-The eponymous heroine of Eva Luna returns as the narrator of 23 tales, sumptuous marriages of Chilean writer Allende's earthy characters and her celestial version of magical realism. Although other figures from that novel also reappear (for example, Eva Luna spins her stories at the request of her lover Rolf Carle), this collection is in no sense a sequel: indeed, each piece here can stand alone. Allende's people are warm-blooded, original, memorable. A simple lyricism evokes European emigres to South America; social climbers; outlaws; schoolteachers; Indians; a nearly indefatigable imagination explores the critical moments in these figures' lives. Many of the stories build on the intricate attachments of unlikely lovers, such as a dictator and the foreign woman he abducts or a criminal and a judge's wife. Allende's inventiveness justifies her own comparisons of her literary creation to Scheherazade, and throughout all these short works whispers the mysticism of Eva Luna herself--her well-placed faith in a world of spirits and in the immortality of human love. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1991.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 330 p.

Atheneum; 1st Edition (January 23, 1991)