It has been a few years since I last tackled an Allende work, but with tasks in both the Read Harder and Reading Women challenges about translated works (the former asking for non-European novel in translation, the latter asking specifically for a book by a South American author in translation) I had the perfect excuse to move Eva Luna up my to read list. The amount of emotion, detail, and characterization that Allende weaves into her writing is simply astounding. It always takes me a […]
“On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.”
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (translator)