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  Eva Luna

  by Isabel Allende

  A woman makes love to an Indian dying of snakebite, miraculously restoring him to life and engendering a daughter named Eva so she will love life. Thus begins Allende's latest novel, a magnificent successor to The House of the Spirits and Of Love & Shadows. Set in a Latin American country, it relates Eva's picaresque adventures. Brought up in the house of an eccentric doctor devoted to mummifying corpses,... (more)