Isabel Allende is a superstar of Latin American literature alongside Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most celebrated women in South America, winner of numerous awards, and author of books translated into dozens of languages, with combined sales steadily approaching 100 million copies. Eva Luna (1987) is her early novel about how, ultimately, nothing in this world is more important than stories. Generals, scientists, guerrillas, bandits, a brothel madam, madmen, scoundrels, saints... Eva Luna is the tale of a storyteller, a novel about an orphan, a servant, a factory worker, a screenwriter, a woman with a turbulent biography and a wild imagination. Here speaks Eva Luna - Oliver Twist, Scheherazade and Baron Munchausen, trickster, pitfall, insightful witness who will lend a helping hand or simply, by giving a curious glance, remember, preserve the memory and then tell about what she saw.