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Summary: The author's use of magic realism will spur your imagination
Review: Are you looking to add some vivid color into your life? Isabel Allende's literary and highly imaginative writing style will captivate and and delight you in this highly visual and sensual novel. I found this book to be much better and less formulaic than the HOUSE OF SPIRITS was. The character is fully fleshed out and seems more real; perhaps because the protagonist is a woman, Eva Luna herself, and in the other book, Allende offers the narrative through a domineering and somewhat obtuse man's eyes. The growth of Eva Luna is beautifually told and readers will identify with her throughout. This evocative novel set my imagination on fire and made all the colors in my world appear brighter while I was reading it.
Rating:
Summary: The author's use of magic realism will spur your imagination
Review: Are you looking to add some vivid color into your life? Isabel Allende's literary and highly imaginative writing style will captivate and and delight you in this highly visual and sensual novel. I found this book to be much
better and less formulaic than the HOUSE OF SPIRITS was. The
character is fully fleshed out and seems more real; perhaps
because the protagonist is a woman, Eva Luna herself, and in
the other book, Allende offers the narrative through a
domineering and somewhat obtuse man's eyes. The growth of Eva Luna is beautifually told and readers will identify with
her throughout. This evocative novel set my imagination on
fire and made all the colors in my world appear brighter
while I was reading it.
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Summary: I. Allende books are PITIFUL 0 stars
Review: As it happened with The House of Spirits nor depth or intelligence in the story is to be found. Some ideas put together at random with a disrespectful (because it`s just hollow and unadvertently made use of) politics background.Reading I. Allende I got the idea, she picks some good-sounding topics from somewhere or someone and applies them both here and there in her stories.
She never engages in risky considerations about the characters.
Every might-be an interesting beginning to go on working throughout the book is always aborted after a few lines and let alone never to be mentioned again. I`ve got the impression, she just can`t do it.
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Summary: CAPTIVATING
Review: Conceived on her father's deathbed and almost strangled to death by her umbilical cord, the baby who emerged would become the woman, Eva Luna. Her birth is incredible and her life is even more so as Eva spins for us her story and the story of those who impacted her life. Isabel Allende captivates the reader by having us take a glimpse of the life and times of Eva Luna, a child whose life is so surreal and incredible to the point where fact and fantasy become one and the same. Eva's voice sweeps us into the dark world of perverts, undesirables and revolutionaries. Through Eva's stories you get a closer look at a society rotten at its core while masquerading as a democracy. Come with Eva, as a little girl where she plays with a stuffed puma owned by a mad-man who uses Indians for his embalming experiments. Watch as this orphaned girl is "sold" off by her strange godmother who believes in the gods of her ancesteral Africa and the saints of Catholicism. Watch Eva as she grows from childhood to adolescense to an adult who has to confront the reality of love and revolution. EVA LUNA is a lyric tale whose language draws you immediately into the life of the character and her supporting cast. You feel a deep empathy for this woman and you see through her eyes the contradictions that life has to offer. Allende has given us an exceptional work that explores both the spiritual, political and sensual side of a woman caught up in the stream of chaos in her South American country. Come, let Eva tell you a story, her story and you will find yourself unable to tear yourself away from her amazing tale.
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Summary: Khalia
Review: Eva Luna reigns as one of my favorite novels. It simply ooozes tapestry of imagery, adventure, and vivacity. Every year, I read this novel at least once. To hear Eva tell the story of her rich life just exhilarates me.
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Summary: Engrossing trip into another culture; mesmerizing.
Review: Evan Luna is a heroine to emulate. She took a seemingly hopeless life and turned it into sparkling prose. Allende's style is purely orgasmic. The metaphors were dazzling. I highly recommend this book to all readers
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Summary: A little dissapointing!
Review: Even though I love the majority of the author's works, I felt like this one definitely fell a little short of my expectations. The characters, as usual, were or diverse backgrounds, however they were not as rich, and their encounters hardly believable, thus they failed to capture my attention. The stories were too vague and left open for interpretation, as a whole the book is a vast gray area between fantasy and reality. The description of the political situation and the guerilla movement was especially tedious. However, the most bothersome part for me was the ambiguity of the time and place of the novel. It is apparent that the story evolves in the late 20th century, somewhere in South America, however, somewhere after the first few chapters I began longing for the usual cast of characters whose struggles and encounters are a lot more realistic and who preferably inhabit the 18th or 19th century.
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Summary: Mystical
Review: I found the first half of the book put-downable, meaning that I didn't have a COMPULSION to read it. Nevertheless, I kept it with me and was enchanted whenever I was reading. [NB It evoked similar feelings when reading it to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time of Cholera, so if you liked that, you will surely like this] However, as Eva moved out of her childhood, and the character range widened, the book became more and more un-put-downable, to the point where I was reading it walking down the street. Allende is a beautiful story-teller. That you learn about the social and historical background of Chile - unstated, but unmistakeable) is a subtly conveyed bonus. Thoroughly recommended!
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Summary: Not that good!
Review: I love some of Isabel Allende's books, like "Paula", others were really bad like the ones she wrote for kids.
This book is not that good, I was about to drop it. The political part was to long and the story of Eva not very interesting.
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Summary: Not that good!
Review: I love some of Isabel Allende's books, like "Paula", others were really bad like the ones she wrote for kids.
This book is not that good, I was about to drop it. The political part was to long and the story of Eva not very interesting.
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