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novel by Isabel Allende

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Eva Luna (disambiguation).

Eva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden.^[1][2]

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 midth century, bears many similarities to Chile (the author's original nationality), the geography and social context of the story depict a society more similar to Venezuela (where she was exiled for over a decade).

The novel takes us through Eva Luna's journey through life so far and her ability to tell stories, interweaving Eva's personal story with the broader geopolitical turmoil of Latin America during the s – s.

Plot

The story is told from Eva's first-person point of view.

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