Here are compesinos and rich people, guerrillas and fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants, the foreign rendered indelibly familiar. Make it up for me.' And so she does, giving Rolf Carlé and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. 'Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story. A treasure trove of brilliantly crafted tales, the book showed us once again why Eva Luna and her much-celebrated creator have won such a large and devoted readership.We begin with Rolf Carlé, the European refugee, journalist, and lover who figured so largely in Eva Luna. Her most ambitious novel up to that time, Eva Luna was described by the Washington Post as 'a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human.' Returning to this tale by popular demand, Allende unveiled The Stories of Eva Luna in 1991. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna, in a novel of the same name 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. Isabel Allende now ranks as one of the world's most beloved authors.

The stories of eva luna