'Filled with multitude of characters and tales... Eva Luna is a remarkable novel, one in which a cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid and passionate and human... Reading this novel is like asking your favourite storyteller to tell you a story and getting a hundred' - Washington Post Book World

'Eva Luna is the fiesty narrator of Isabel Allende's sumptous, picaresque third novel - a tale that spans forty years and moves from surreal jungle to a modern-day urban capital' - Chicago Tribune

'Eva is a prodigious fabulist, weaving extraordinary tales that change reality at will, making it, she says, easier to bear. Although the fabulist's art is seen as dangerously escapist, Allende's wonderful novel, crammed with the strange and fantastical, the sensuous and erotic, also speaks powerfully in the cause of freedom' - Publishers Weekly

'Take a bit of the Book of Genesis and a little Scheherezade. Toss in a dash of John Irving's Garp. Add a teaspoonof sly self-parody, and you have this romantic confection of a novel' - People