John Butt (review date 8 February 1991)


John Butt (review date 8 February 1991)

SOURCE: "Night with Real Men," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4584, February 8, 1991, p. 12.

[In the review below, Butt focuses on the romantic themes in The Stories of Eva Luna.]

Readers of Isabel Allende's previous novel, Eva Luna, will recall that we left the left-wing waif in Cloud Cuckoo Land in the arms of the dashing international photo-journalist Rolf Carle: "He strode forward and kissed me exactly as it happens in romantic novels, exactly as I had been wanting him to for a century,...

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