Eva Luna

Eva Luna, the captivating heroine of this book, is an orphan girl who works as a maid and trades her material poverty for the richness of her imagination. She loves to tell stories, and turns her life into a tragicomedy, in which she displays a surprising group of characters: as an embalmer of corpses, a frightening godmother and a woman in the body of a man... With sweetness and superior literary craftsmanship, Isabel Allende reviews the fate of her characters as an integral part of the collective fate of a continent marked by social injustice and the search for its identity own.