They include the rich and eccentric, for whom she works as a servant.the Lebanese emigre who befriends her and takes her in. 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.
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.“ My name is Eva, which means “life,” according to a book of names my mother consulted.
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