Isabel Allende EVA LUNA First Edition Signed Review Copy
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Isabel Allende EVA LUNA First Edition Signed Review Copy
First edition first print hardback of EVA LUNA by Isabel Allende and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1989. Signed and inscribed to a previous owner and with a customary flower drawing by Allende on the title page. With full numberline 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. This is a review copy and includes a loosely inserted publisher's note mentioning title, publication date and price.The book is in very good condition (black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with slight bumping to the top corners and tanning to page edges. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which has a small closed tear to the top corner at the back and minor rubbing to corners and edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
"My name is Eva, which means life, according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of these things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory." This is the voice that carries us through Eva Luna, the assured voice of a naturally inventive storyteller, a woman who relates to us the picaresque tale of her own life (born poor, orphaned early, she will eventually rise to a position of unique influence) and of the people - from all levels of society - that she meets along the way. They include the rich and eccentric, for whom she works as a servant; the Lebanese emigre who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints, some of African origin, and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her, with great tenderness and insight, in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Evas fate.
271 pages.
ISBN: 0241126665
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