![]() ![]() There, Eva keeps her savior's sulky wife Zulema company. She meets Riad Halabi, a kind Arab merchant with a cleft lip, who takes pity on her and whisks her away to the backwater village of Agua Santa. Melesio drafts a protesting petition and is packed off to prison, and Eva's out on the street. Everything's cozy until a new police sergeant takes over the district and disrupts the accepted system of corruption. Years later, when she's in another bind, he finds her a place to stay in the red-light district-with a cheerful madame, La Senora, whose best friend is Melesio, a transvestite cabaret star. During one of her periodic bouts of rebellion, she runs away and makes friends with Huberto Naranjo, a slick little street-kid. ![]() ![]() When little Eva Luna's mother dies, the imaginative child is hired out to a string of eccentric families. Here, after last year's Of Love and Shadows, the tale of a quirky young woman's rise to influence in an unnamed South American country-with a delightful cast of exotic characters, but without the sure-handed plotting and leisurely grace of Allende's first-and best-book, The House of the Spirits (1985). ![]()
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