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  <default_description>Isabel Allende is one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Retruning to this tale, Allende presents &lt;I&gt;The Stories of Eva Luna,&lt;/i&gt; a treasure trove of brilliantly crafted stories.&lt;P&gt;Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carle, Eva answers hes request for a story &quot;you have never told anyone before&quot; with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion, and the strenghts of women, creating a world that is at once poingnantly familiar and intriguingly new. &lt;P&gt;Rendered in the sumptuously imagined, uniquely magical style of one of the world's most stunning writers, &lt;I&gt;The Stories of Eva Luna &lt;/i&gt;is the conerstone of  Allende's work. It is not to be missed by anyone -- whether a devotee of Ms. Allende's oeuvre or a new acquaintance to her work.&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[        The book &quot;The Stories of Eva Luna&quot; by, Isabel Allende was amazing. I loved how the author divided many short stories and put it all in one book. These stories gave me various and mixed emotions. However my favorite story &quot;Wicked Girl&quot; was in the beginning of the book. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58808902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allande was a massive collection of short stories brought together about many different women.  Latin American stories really bring out details and paint imagery in ones’ head.  If one takes notice you can see the amounts of “local color” this book provided....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58802243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is not necessary to read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149196.Eva_Luna" title="Eva Luna by Isabel Allende">Eva Luna</a> prior to reading this collection, but I highly recommend it. You will have a better grasp of the characters and locations and the stories will be more meaningful.  I love this short story collection and much like Allende's other works I return to this every so of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12806702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Isabel Allende<br/>I loved this book. It ended up being a very quick read. The descriptions were amazing as well as the stories themselves. They each had their own theme and pulled the reader in. I never wanted to put the book down and when I did the stories stayed in my mind. I was very surpr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58096956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reluctantly and was completely won over by these stories.<br/><br/>From &quot;Interminable Life&quot; <blockquote>There are all kinds of stories.  Some are born with the telling; their substance is language, and before someone puts them into words they are but a hint of an emotion, a caprice of the ...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57620822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had some difficulty reading this book due to some advanced vocabularies that were used. Eva's gift in the story is to tell stories in a Latin American background, women surviving the harsh treatments they encountered. The story is very surprising because you can't guess what's about to happen next...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58731510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Isabel Allende’s “The stories of Eva Luna” collection of short stories filled with men and women on the quest for love while learning life’s values along the way.  This was an entertaining book set in the developing Latin American times while the women in each short story would be the protag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58582582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love how the stories in this book have so much local color and imagery. It's a book that starts out confusing but once you read a few pages of a short story you just cant stop! I loved this book. It shows passion and how far someone can go to get it, and if they can't get it, it haunts them for li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56548018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a huge Isabel Allende's fan and had been wishing to read this book for quite some time, since I read &quot;Eva Luna&quot;. They are great stories, a nice read for trips home-work-home.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Within the book &quot;The stories of Eva Luna&quot; by, Isabel Allende there are many stories and critical reviews that explain different stories that reflects on one theme. Reading books with many stories told by a/or narrator(s) can teach many literary techniques and the literary aspects that are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58056896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Isable Allende,<br/><br/>     I want to tell you how much i enjoyed reading those short stories of yours. Each one was unique and fasinating. They dealt with the different situations of different people in distint areas of Latin America. I was able to relate to some of yours stories, since im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58707318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is full with books that are sometimes so boring that you would go right to sleep while reading it like I did, but sometimes, even when you are so sleepy, you still can read because it is so interesting. I don't know about other people, but I think that the first few pages of every story I'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57853976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I liked this book because it had many interesting short stories combined together. I also really loved how in the end all these stories came together to make sense. One short story that shocked me the most about this book was in one of the sections called, &quot;Wicked Girl,&quot; when a gi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57044881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Isabel Allende takes a Scheherazade approach to these short stories, which she nightly tells to her lover Rolf Carle.  As I've been recovering from a hand injury, part of my therapy was hot parrafin, wrapped in plastic, wrapped in a heating pad.  Each short story was just enough time for this daily ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78129172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories of full of adages and meanings. It teaches you the lessons of life and that family is very important. In each story, there is always a theme of love and family. I found this book to be very interesting though some parts of it were very unexpected. For example, in &quot;wicked gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57745348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book &quot;The Stories of Eva Luna&quot; has a series of short story. The these short story contain romances and local color. Each of these story to me has some love and meaning to it, sometimes there's a lesson involved. My favorite short story was &quot;Wicked Girl&quot; because it set a nice ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58803901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Stories of Eva luna&quot; is one of the best short story books i've ever read. This book was different and someof the stories were queit sexual. In each chapter Eva brings out every emotion as she tells stories like the one about the gypsy girl that wasn’t afraid to meet a fearsome leade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58926845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really interesting book. Isabel Allende definitely has an intense imagination. Some of my favorite stories were Wicked Girl, Gift for a Sweetheart, Letters of Betrayed love, Our Secret and Two Words. I think that these stories fascinated me because of the surprising endings, the conflicte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58173286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing sensory imagery, local color backdrops for unique characters in intense situations especially in <strong><em>Two Words,The Gold of Tomas Vargas</em></strong> and <strong><em>Girl For a Sweetheart</em></strong>. Allende has taken a page or several from Scheherazade in <u>One Thousand and One Nights</u> and brought this &quot;pillow talk&quot; to the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56561162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A load of shit.  This short story collection by Allendes is full of characters lifted from other writers and folklores, except they're placed in completely boring scenarios, uttering completely cliched banality.  It is soap-opera exoticism and a waste of time.  Read Garcia-Marquez's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein" title="Frankenstein by Mary Shelley">collected short stories</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21592963">more...</a>]]></body>
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