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''Eva Luna'' is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1987 and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden. Eva Luna takes us into the life of the eponymous protagonist, an orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America. While the country's political history, traced through several decades of the mid-20th century, bears many similarities to Chile (the author's original nationality), the geography and social context of the story depict a society more similar to Venezuela (where she was exiled for over a decade). The novel takes us through Eva Luna's journey though life so far and her ability to tell stories, interweaving Eva's personal story with the broader geopolitical turmoil of Latin America during the 1950s – 1980s. ==Characters== * ''Eva Luna'': Narrator, daughter of Consuelo and an Indian gardener, orphaned between ages six and seven, talented storyteller, has red hair, falls in love with Rolf at close of novel * ''Huberto Naranjo'': Eva's friend for many years, a ragamuffin street boy, later a fighter in the guerilla movement, Eva's sporadic lover until she commits to Rolf * ''Consuelo'': Eva's mother, found in the middle of a jungle by missionaries (so also an orphan), also has red hair, gives Eva the gift of storytelling, dies by eating a chicken bone * ''Riad Hilabi'': One of Eva's many "patrons" (people she lives with), but Riad is more of a father figure, Eva lives with him for many years, has a cleft-lip, known in his village as "the Turk" (from Turkey, speaks Arabic), very kind and generous, shopkeeper * ''El Negro'': Friend of Huberto Naranjo, bartender * ''La Señora'': Lady-pimp, takes Eva in, gives her a makeover, makes Eva leave after ''The Revolt of the Whores'' so the police do not find her with a minor, best friend of Melesio/Mimi * ''Melesio/Mimi'': The best friend of La Señora, a transgender woman, eventually becomes "Mimi." Mimi is a famous actress in telenovelas, good friend and roommate of Eva later in Eva's life, encourages Eva to write down her stories * ''Zulema'': Riad Hilabi's wife, hates Riad because he has a cleft lip, lazy, depressed, gorgeous, has a short-lived affair with Riad's nephew, commits suicide * ''Rolf Carlé'': Grows up in post-World War II Europe, has a sadistic father and a kind but passive mother, leaves his home after his father's death, lives with his aunt and uncle, has threesomes with his two cousins, becomes a photojournalist eventually filming the guerilla movement (he meets Naranjo this way), falls in love with Eva at close of novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eva Luna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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