Eva Luna
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“Mi chiamo Eva, che vuol dire vita, secondo un libro che mia madre consultò per scegliermi il nome”
Eva Luna è una bambina, figlia di diseredati, che viene abbandonata fin da piccola e destinata al mestiere di serva. “Luna” perché il padre apparteneva al popolo della luna. Acuta osservatrice, avventurosa con una spiccata personalità, la piccola cresce in un mondo oppresso dalla dittatura e divorato dall’ingiustizia, ma che affronta e trasforma con fantasia e ribellione. Ne nasce un’indimenticabile figura di donna, con una grande capacità affabulatoria, nella tradizione del romanzo picaresco spagnolo, una donna cui l’immaginazione, lo spirito d’iniziativa, insieme a piccoli casi fortunati e a inaspettati gesti di solidarietà, consentono di sopravvivere fino a che la realtà si costruisce a misura del desiderio.
Una grande storia d’amore che è anche quadro d’ambiente e romanzo d’avventura.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman makes love to an Indian dying of snakebite, miraculously restoring him to life and engendering a daughter named Eva``so she will love life.'' Thus begins Allende's latest novel, a magnificent successor to The House of the Spirits and Of Love & Shadows. Set in a Latin American country, it relates Eva's picaresque adventures. Brought up in the house of an eccentric doctor devoted to mummifying corpses, where her mother is a servant, Eva is left an orphan at six. Her black godmother, or madrina , leases her as a servant to a series of bizarre households of metaphorical significance, the last of which she leaves in grand style upon emptying a government Minister's chamberpot over his head. Interleaved with Eva's story is her account of a certain Rolf Carle, with whom her life will become linkedshe tells of his youth in Nazi Austria and young manhood as a filmmaker in South America. Through a series of improbable and felicitous coincidences, Eva is taken under the wing of such exotic benefactors as a street urchin who becomes a guerrilla leader, a colorful whorehouse Madam, a kindly Turkish merchant and a stunningly beautiful transsexual. Like the author, Eva is a prodigious fabulist, weaving extraordinary tales that change reality at will, making it, as she says, easier to bear. Although the fabulist's art is seen as dangerously escapist, Allende's wonderful novel, crammed with the strange and fantastical, the sensuous and the erotic, also speaks powerfully in the cause of freedom. 40,000 first printing; BOMC and QPBC alternate.
