Books : Eva Luna

by: Isabel Allende  Average Rating:

Rating: - My Favorite book.
i love the way Allende writes. she's a master!! this is a great love story. but it's not typical. its not expected. it is epic and it doesn't just limit its focus to two people. you meet many wonderful, crazy characters. what a world she has created. it's like one long dream reading this book.

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Rating: - Magic Unrealism
Isabel Allende's Eva Luna manages to be about many diverse things: a picaresque soap opera; the story of Latin America; the tale of a woman coming to self-determination; an autobiography; a description of the creation and nature of fiction: and yet never loses its narrative fascination. Allende uses very little dialog, and the characters, Eva herself included, are more 'imaginary' than most novelists attempt: but believable and in the end quite moving.
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Rating: - an excellent reading experience
For those of you who are stalwart devotees to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who believe Updike is a mere scribbler compared to the Latin literary lion, who believe "One Hundred Years of Solitude" should be worshiped more piously than the Bible and Koran put together, it may behoove you stop reading this review ahora mismo. OK, I'm going to admit "One Hundred Years" is the only novel I've read by Marquez, and "Eva Luna" is the only novel I've ready by Allende. But "One Hundred Years" is supposed to be ... Read More