This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? Here are the story titles with their relative starting times, since, as noted below, the chapter breaks are haphazard: 1. I was unable to find a table of contents for this audiobook, and one of my motivations in purchasing and listening to it was to provide one to other prospective listeners. I'll definitely revisit this audiobook, despite most of my favourite stories being left out. The stories range from whimsically touching to heartbreakingly tragic. Allende's prose is poetic and her stories are filled with meaningful magic, where miracles are beautiful or terrible epiphanies. That said, I had to listen at speeds between 1.5 and 3 times the recorded speed, as Pena takes some extremely pregnant pauses.
Nevertheless, the stories found here are still a delight to revisit, especially when read by Elizabeth Pena, who is very easy on the ears, and reads the stories with the requisite sultry tone Allende's work demands. I was struck most by the absence of "And of Clay Are We Created," widely considered Allende's best work of short fiction, and "The Judge's Wife," which has been anthologized a number of times. Of the 24 original stories, only 8 are found here. Lamentable as these situations may be I decided that some Allende was better than no Allende, and was only mildly disappointed at the odd choices the audiobook producers made when selecting which short stories to include. Worse yet, the Stories of Eva Luna, one of my favourite works by Allende, is this abridged version.
I live in Canada, and am consequently cursed to a poverty of Allende's work in audio form, perhaps because the Audible powers-that-be assume that our comparative lack of Latin American listeners means a lack of interest in Latin American works.
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