("The Stories of Eva Luna")
Apr. 27th, 2008 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiefoeIsabel Allende's version of Arabian Nights. I mostly flipped through for the love stories. In 'Ester Lucero', for instance, a respected doctor performs an aboriginal dance to save the dying girl he has long been loving from afar.
'Gift for a Sweetheart'
__ A second blue figure appeared, hanging by its legs in the top branches of another tree, swinging by the wrists a young girl wearing a flower crown. The first gave a signal and the holder released the girl, who scattered a rain of paper butterflies before being caught by the ankles. Patricia did not dare move while those silent, gold-caped birds flew through the air.
__ ... acclaimed by the trumpets and cymbals of his own orchestra, the most conceited, most lovesick, and most entertaining man in the world. Patricia laughed, and walked forward to meet him.
'The Little Heidelberg'
__ "El Capitan says he has waited forty years to ask you, and that he could not wait until again comes someone who speaks his language. He says please to do him the favor of answering him now."
__ For seven (centavos) she improved the qualities of dreams.. for twelve she invented insults for irreconcilable enemies.
__ mango marmalade
'Gift for a Sweetheart'
__ A second blue figure appeared, hanging by its legs in the top branches of another tree, swinging by the wrists a young girl wearing a flower crown. The first gave a signal and the holder released the girl, who scattered a rain of paper butterflies before being caught by the ankles. Patricia did not dare move while those silent, gold-caped birds flew through the air.
__ ... acclaimed by the trumpets and cymbals of his own orchestra, the most conceited, most lovesick, and most entertaining man in the world. Patricia laughed, and walked forward to meet him.
'The Little Heidelberg'
__ "El Capitan says he has waited forty years to ask you, and that he could not wait until again comes someone who speaks his language. He says please to do him the favor of answering him now."
__ For seven (centavos) she improved the qualities of dreams.. for twelve she invented insults for irreconcilable enemies.
__ mango marmalade
