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Very Good Very good 25 cm. Condition very good in golden boards with black cloth spine, DJ very good, clean tight copy 1st edition 1st printing. From Publishers Weekly-The eponymous heroine of Eva Luna returns as the narrator of 23 tales, sumptuous marriages of Chilean writer Allende's earthy characters and her celestial version of magical realism. Although other figures from that novel also reappear (for example, Eva Luna spins her stories at the request of her lover Rolf Carle), this collection is in no sense a sequel: indeed, each piece here can stand alone. Allende's people are warm-blooded, original, memorable. A simple lyricism evokes European emigres to South America; social climbers; outlaws; schoolteachers; Indians; a nearly indefatigable imagination explores the critical moments in these figures' lives. Many of the stories build on the intricate attachments of unlikely lovers, such as a dictator and the foreign woman he abducts or a criminal and a judge's wife. Allende's inventiveness justifies her own comparisons of her literary creation to Scheherazade, and throughout all these short works whispers the mysticism of Eva Luna herself--her well-placed faith in a world of spirits and in the immortality of human love. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Size: 6x1x9;

Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Large, heavy book, black cloth spine, dark yellow boards, very bright red lettering and design at top front, gilt lettering bright on spine, 331 lightly browned pages plus final note and brief biographical note. DJ has beautiful color-illustration of woman in shawl leaning on dresser on front and spine, b/w photo of Allende in thin red frame on back. DJ has tiny creases at top front edge next to spine, tiny tear with crease at top back spine indentation, microtear at top back tip. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991-01-23. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 9.1000 6.0000. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. First Edition, in Brodart plastic.

Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages.

331 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. Yellow boards, stamped in red on front, with qtr black cloth, stamped in gold on spine. Mostly pale blue glossy dj. Endpapers glue-stained. No markings noted.

Signed By Author on endpaper in black ink with flower drawing. In pictorial jacket, 8vo, [12], 330, [7] pages. Contains 23 short stories plus the prologue. Originally published in Spain in 1989 under title: Cuentos de Eva Luna. (drip stain to upper corner of page edges and endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall)