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December 1st 1994
by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
(first published 1987)
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Paperback, 256 pages
isbn
007001356X
(isbn13: 9780070013568)
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Diez cuentos de Eva Luna (Ten Stories of Eva Luna) is an anthology of 10 short stories by the renowned Chilean writer, Isabel Allende. Best known for …more
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Read in June, 2009
The book "The Stories of Eva Luna" 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 "Wicked Girl" was in the beginning of the book. This story shocked me because I never thought of any conflict in a relationship the way the author described it. The conflict in this story was that a man stayed over a hotel and was sensuous with the ow...more
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Read in June, 2009
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. In other words, phrases that were said in Spanish which not many of us knew the definition of. For me this book was quit the easy one because I’m Hispanic and I didn’t really need to look up an...more
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It is not necessary to read Eva Luna 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 often and am always delighted.
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Read in June, 2009
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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 surprised on how much “local color” was in each of the stories. Local color means creative details. For example in the book there were words or phrases in Spanish. This is local color, as well as food ...more
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 surprised on how much “local color” was in each of the stories. Local color means creative details. For example in the book there were words or phrases in Spanish. This is local color, as well as food ...more
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Read in June, 2009
I started reluctantly and was completely won over by these stories.
From "Interminable Life"
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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 mind, an image, or an intangible recollection. Others are manifest whole, like an apple and can be repeated infinitely without risk of altering their meaning. Some are taken from reality and process...more
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Read in June, 2009
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. For example, Eva's mother Consuelo choking on a chicken bone and then dying. The story is told from Eva's point of view and while you read it you start feeling bad for her. She's all alone in the wo...more
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Read in June, 2009
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 protagonist trying to find the right man for them. In some of the stories, it may take a few days, but others may take a lifetime. The short stories were very detailed with the character’s being possess...more
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Read in January, 2008
I'm a huge Isabel Allende's fan and had been wishing to read this book for quite some time, since I read "Eva Luna". They are great stories, a nice read for trips home-work-home.
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Read in May, 2009
Within the book "The stories of Eva Luna" 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 in the world of literature. However, this book can be compared to another book that is set with a mixture of stories, called" Miguel Street" by Naipaul. It is logical that these two stories ...more
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Read in April, 2009
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Read in June, 2009
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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've read in this book is boring, but when I continued to read to the conflict, and the rising point, I starts to be interested in it.
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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 therapeutic treatment, and changed it from drudgery to delicious. I totally lost myself in each of these beautiful stories, each one better than the one before. Each story was a lesson in love and m...more
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Read in June, 2009
The book "The Stories of Eva Luna" 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 "Wicked Girl" because it set a nice theme to the story that made me want to continue to read. The description how she describe things is wonderful. She makes you feel like you're there to watch as the story goes on. Like a character tra...more
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Read in June, 2009
"The Stories of Eva luna" 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 leader and make him hers by telling him one word. Also she told a story about trust and friendship, where a man, after his wife was killed, still didn’t believe the prime suspect, because he knew the sus...more
Read in June, 2009
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 conflicted protagonists' pasts, and the descriptions of some of the characters' thought processes. After I reached the mark of where we weren't required the read anymore, I couldn't stop and I decided to keep ...more
Amazing sensory imagery, local color backdrops for unique characters in intense situations especially in Two Words,The Gold of Tomas Vargas and Girl For a Sweetheart. Allende has taken a page or several from Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights and brought this "pillow talk" to the snowy Andes and the majestic valleys of South America. There's something for everyone, including strange and darker tomes with If You Touched My Heart and Wicked Girl
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Read in November, 2007
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