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Just finished reading Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, another magnificent book. I’m looking forward to reading more of her work. I remember the ‘House of the Spirits’, another of her books, came out as a movie starring Meryl Streep quite a few years ago.

The setting of ‘Eva Luna’ (and Isabel Allende’s life and other works) is South America. The book centres on the obervations and experiences of a young girl struggling in difficult circumstances towards womanhood, her relationships with the colourful characters who come and go in her life starting with her mother and after her mother’s death, a variety of female carers, father figures, employers, friends and lovers as well as her encounters with the fascinating world of the backstreets and servant’s quarters of a South American city and as a surrogate daughter in the tormented household of an estranged Arabic couple in a South American village where traditional Indian culture is mixed with foreign and colonial elements. Read more »