Post by Vorchia on Jan 15, 2006 15:05:53 GMT -5
Before anyone asks, yes I have the intention of reading all Allende's books as well as any other Spanish literature I can lay my hands on. Considering that fact that I am the only one who is actually reading and posting in the bookforum these days, I assume it is ok to do so. ;D
Eva Luna is a girl in a South American country who leads a very hectic and rather insane life. She has the wildest possible imagination she uses to make up stories. The world she grows up in is an unstable Latin-American country of the early and mid twentieth century. She's the only daughter of an unmarried woman who dies when she is still a child. Her father is an Indian gardner her mother saved from a snakebite. She goes through many different 'homes' and many levels of society during her life with but a few people who keep coming back. The story is interesting and KEEPS taking weird twists, though not quite like those of 'the house of the spirits'. (Spirits and the supernatural do play a role though not as strongly, mainly in the susperstition and beliefs of some of the characters). Throughout her story you also get many different stories of the other characters which eventually come together in an attack on a jail when the guerilla frees some prisoners of the military regime.
I did like this book... Is anyone else reading anything or am I the last bookworm or are you all waiting for mr Gurney's new book??
Eva Luna is a girl in a South American country who leads a very hectic and rather insane life. She has the wildest possible imagination she uses to make up stories. The world she grows up in is an unstable Latin-American country of the early and mid twentieth century. She's the only daughter of an unmarried woman who dies when she is still a child. Her father is an Indian gardner her mother saved from a snakebite. She goes through many different 'homes' and many levels of society during her life with but a few people who keep coming back. The story is interesting and KEEPS taking weird twists, though not quite like those of 'the house of the spirits'. (Spirits and the supernatural do play a role though not as strongly, mainly in the susperstition and beliefs of some of the characters). Throughout her story you also get many different stories of the other characters which eventually come together in an attack on a jail when the guerilla frees some prisoners of the military regime.
I did like this book... Is anyone else reading anything or am I the last bookworm or are you all waiting for mr Gurney's new book??