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Description
Niece of the assassinated Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende has written a luminous literary novel that traces the life of an orphan from her impoverished beginnings to her rise to fame and fortune. HC: Knopf.
Summary
the book have many stories. just the one arthur. the book will keep you on the edge of your seat. it's fun, loving, and headlifting.
Cast of Characters/Important People
Memorable Quotes
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“Reality is a jumble we can’t always measure or decipher, because everything is happening at the same time. While you and I are speaking here, behind your back Christopher Columbus is inventing America, and the same Indians that welcome him in the stained-glass window are still naked in a jungle a few hours from this office, and will be there a hundred years from now. I try to open a path through that maze, to put a little order in that chaos, to make life more bearable. When I write, I describe life as I would like it to be”
Eva Luna
First Sentence
SHE went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she had been baptized with that name or given it by her mother, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of "beauty" and "twilight" and cloaked herself in it.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Isabel Allende (Author)
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- Dewey: 868'.44
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