Eva’s mother, Consuelo, was saved by missionaries in the South American jungles. Throughout the many difficult times that she was forced to face in her life, she showed perseverance in her quest for personal fulfillment. Eva Luna was born the daughter of a servant in South America. That experiences from her life help shape her fiction is typical of Allende’s work as her personal background and historical events are often comingled by the author. The time covers several decades during the twentieth century and the events, in the social and political contexts of the 1950s through the 1980s, suggest both Chile and Venezuela as locales that could have served as influences for the author who is Chilean and was exiled for a time to Venezuela. Eva Luna (1987), a novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, tells the story of Eva, an orphan growing up in a South American country that is not specifically named in the book.
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