Here are campesinos and rich people, guerrillas and fortunetellers, 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. It begins with Rolf Carlé, the European refugee, journalist and lover who figured so largely in her last book. Her most ambitious novel to date, Eva Luna was described by the Washington Post as a “cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human.” Now in The Stories of Eva Luna, she again presents to us a treasure trove of such stories, showing once more why Eva Luna (and her much-celebrated creator) has now such a large and devoted readership. 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.

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