But as is with fiction well written, these only capture the complexity of human emotions and relationships.Įva is not educated and is a descendent of the people of the wild – she receives no formal education until the schoolteacher in Agua Santa Ines teaches her to read and write, but grows up on a rich diet of the stories her mother makes up to entertain her is an otherwise solitary world. These two stories are highly incestuous, where she considers Riad a father figure and Hubero, something like a brother. Both the men become her lovers, Riad for one night and Huberto, years later, as he rises to the position of the Chief of the Guerillas and sees her on and off.

Born to the help of a maverick doctor who mummified dead bodies and preserved them forever, Eva is orphaned when around eight and travels far and wide, finding one patron after another to serve and learn from, till first Huberto Naranjo puts her in the care of La Senora and then the benevolent Riad Halabi stumbles upon her and takes her to Agua Santa where she would grow in some of the happiest of her times. Bards are the favourite subjects of bards and if that reeks of narcissism, I hear no one complaining.Įva Luna, by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, is the story of the titular protagonist, from the time her mother conceived her to the time she is in her 40s. Think about it, some of our most beloved characters are geniuses, readers, thinkers, and people who are a part dream and part reality. If that is not possible, please use the links on the page and support us. We encourage you to buy books from a local bookstore.

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