Eva Luna: A Novel

  • Author: Isabel Allende
  • Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 11:40:47
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Synopsis

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.

As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation—the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated—in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.

Chapters

  • 001 EvaLuna Open

    Duration: 36s
  • 002 EvaLuna Dedication

  • 003 EvaLuna Epigraph

    Duration: 15s
  • 004 EvaLuna Chapter1

    Duration: 59min
  • 005 EvaLuna Chapter2

    Duration: 32min
  • 006 EvaLuna Chapter3

    Duration: 01h23min
  • 007 EvaLuna Chapter4

    Duration: 51min
  • 008 EvaLuna Chapter5

    Duration: 01h22min
  • 009 EvaLuna Chapter6

    Duration: 01h16min
  • 010 EvaLuna Chapter7

    Duration: 28min
  • 011 EvaLuna Chapter8

    Duration: 01h11min
  • 012 EvaLuna Chapter9

    Duration: 40min
  • 013 EvaLuna Chapter10

    Duration: 01h02min
  • 014 EvaLuna Chapter11A

    Duration: 47min
  • 015 EvaLuna Chapter11B

    Duration: 52min
  • 016 EvaLuna AFinalWord

    Duration: 08min
  • 017 EvaLuna Credits

    Duration: 59s