Quotes from book
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende
Original title
Eva Luna
(Spanish, 1989)
Eva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1987 and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden.Eva Luna takes us into the life of the eponymous protagonist, an orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America. While the country's political history, traced through several decades of the mid-20th century, bears many similarities to Chile , the geography and social context of the story depict a society more similar to Venezuela .