In 1988 Isabel Allende published Eva Luna, a novel that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love, and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. Her most ambitious novel to date, Eva Luna was described by The Washington Post as a cascade of stories [that] tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate, and human. Now in The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende again presents us with a treasure trove of such stories, showing us once more why Eva Luna (and her much-celebrated creator) has such a large and devoted readership.