Isabel Allende was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru. In the end, however, Eva Luna is an uplifting tale that celebrates the redemptive powers of both love and the imagination. Readers should be advised that some scenes in Eva Luna are sexual in nature, and there are references to violence in both the story of the South American guerrilla fighters and the story of Lukas Carlé, the abusive father of Rolf Carlé. Allende also explores themes such as women's rights and the abuse of power. The transformative power of words and stories is one of the major themes of the novel. On the page before the story begins, Allende includes this quote from A Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights (a classic collection of Arabian folktales written over several centuries): 'Then he said to Scheherazade: ‘Sister, for the sake of Allah, tell us a story that will help pass the night….’' Like Scheherazade, Eva Luna uses her storytelling ability to help her survive a succession of hardships, and she eventually makes her living as a writer.

The novel has a mythic, fairy-tale quality, though much of it is set against a backdrop of political unrest and violence that closely resembles the realities of several South American nations. The story is narrated by the title character, who first tells the tale of Consuelo, her mother, and then proceeds through the rest of her own adventurous and sometimes bizarre life. An English translation was published in the United States in 1988. Eva Luna, the third novel by the Chilean author Isabel Allende, was first published in Spanish in 1985.

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