Isabel Allende is a superstar of Latin American literature along with Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most famous women in South America, winner of numerous awards, author of books translated into dozens of languages and with total circulations that are steadily approaching one hundred million copies. “Eva Luna” (1987) and “The Stories of Eva Luna” (1989) are her early books about how, ultimately, there is nothing more important than stories in this world. Generals, scientists, partisans, an unrecognized saint, bandits, a circus owner, inhabitants ghost palace... “Eva Luna” is a tale about a storyteller, a novel about an orphan, a maid, a factory worker, a screenwriter, the owner of a stormy biography and wild imagination. For the sake of everything human that is in her and in us, she composes fairy tales, mixes truth with fiction, and the suffering are consoled by her “Stories” - a dizzying carnival whirlwind in which love and faith, crazy coincidences and violent passions, a lot of sadness flash before us , laughter, a lot of blood and everything that stories usually consist of. Here Eva Luna speaks - Oliver Twist, Scheherazade and Baron Munchausen, a trickster, a reef, an insightful witness who will lend a helping hand or simply, giving a curious look, remember, preserve the memory and then tell about what she saw. “Stories of Eva Luna” published in Russian for the first time.