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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna
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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna

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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Eva Luna," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535826211
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's Eva Luna

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      Eva Luna

      ISABEL ALLENDE

      1985

      INTRODUCTION

      Eva Luna, the third novel by the Chilean author Isabel Allende, was first published in Spanish in 1985. An English translation was published in the United States in 1988. The story is narrated by the title character, who first tells the tale of Consuelo, her mother, and then proceeds through the rest of her own adventurous and sometimes bizarre life. The novel has a mythic, fairy-tale quality, though much of it is set against a backdrop of political unrest and violence that closely resembles the realities of several South American nations.

      On the page before the story begins, Allende includes this quote from A Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights (a classic collection of Arabian folktales written over several centuries): Then he said to Scheherazade: ‘Sister, for the sake of Allah, tell us a story that will help pass the night….’ Like Scheherazade, Eva Luna uses her storytelling ability to help her survive a succession of hardships, and she eventually makes her living as a writer. The transformative power of words and stories is one of the major themes of the novel. Allende also explores themes such as women's rights and the abuse of power.

      Readers should be advised that some scenes in Eva Luna are sexual in nature, and there are references to violence in both the story of the South American guerrilla fighters and the story of Lukas Carlé, the

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