by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422683
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«Cuentos de Eva Luna» is a collection of short stories by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
Allende returns to the universe of her novel Eva Luna in these stories, populated by peasants, guerrillas, fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants. With myth and magical realism, the unknown becomes familiar as love, revenge, nostalgia, compassion and irony appear.
This 1999 edition belongs to the Ave Fénix collection (no. 168), within the Biblioteca de autor; the work was originally published in 1989.
For readers of Latin American fiction and magical realism, as well as for those wishing to discover Isabel Allende's short-story work.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
