The Stories of Eva Luna
Isabel Allende · 1989
Allende's story collection extends the magical realist tradition into feminist territory. Stories of desire, violence, and transformation in Latin America, told with her characteristic lush sensuousness.
The case against
Allende works the García Márquez vein without the discipline. Lushness becomes a habit; passions ignite on schedule, fates arrive with a wink, and several stories resolve in the same warm glow. Read five and you can predict the sixth. The Scheherazade frame promises more than the tales deliver.
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