Eva Luna

Eva Luna, the heroine of this captivating book, an orphan girl working as a maid, and trading her material poverty for the wealth of her imagination. She loves storytelling, and turns her life into a tragicomedy in which she presents a surprising array of characters: embalmed corpses, a frightening witch, and a woman with a man's body... with sweetness and superb literary craftsmanship, Isabel Allende presents the fate of her characters as an inseparable part of the collective fate of a continent marked by social injustice and the search for its own identity.