The Stories of Eva Luna

Rating:
Summary: Very good, concise and strong
Review: What I enjoyed most about these short stories was how they were complete and concise. In Allende's work there tends to be a propensity to drift as she introduces so many possible roads for the story/character to go to. But the short story formula forces Allende to stay on topic/character and not digress into irrelevant historical facts.
The one flaw I would say that I noticed about this book, and I wouldn't term it flaw but there are points where a character or situation touches briefly onto a former story or heralds something of a future tale. Unfortunately this skill is used so deftly that it left me clamoring for me but there wasn't any. That was my only disappointment with the book. Buy it, an excellent resource for teaching short story form (which is what I used it for) or for studying how to do it well. Or even to read on a short trip, the subway perhaps....?