She spends some time with a transsexual woman named Mimi, but her heart still belongs to her benefactor Naranjo. Although Halabi is able to bribe the police and rescue her, he cannot allow her stay any longer for fear of violence from the rest of the villagers.Įva conducts a series of affairs after this. Rumors spread throughout the village, and Eva is arrested for her mistress' murder. Zulema becomes infatuated in him and seduces him one day, but he regrets the affair and leaves. Some years later Halabi's cousin Kamal moves in. Eva joins the household as a helper, but she is strictly Halabi's consort. The situation is complicated, however, because he lives with his wife, Zulema. Destitute, Eva meets a man named Riad Halabi and agrees to move to Agua Santa with him. When a new police chief arrives, the brothel is immediately shut down. Eventually he places her in a brothel called La Señora where she is fondly looked after, but she longs to reunite with Naranjo.

She falls in love with him, but her perspective is tainted because he is her sole benefactor. On her own as a young adult, Eva makes the acquaintance of a handsome young man named Huberto Naranjo. Although he survives, he dies sometime later following Eva's mom's death she chokes on a chicken bone. She was conceived while her father lay dying of a poisoned snake bite. Beginning with her mother's recounting of her own life, Eva's story is preemptively intertwined with her mom's. The book is composed of two parallel narratives, the dominant of which revolves around the life of Eva Luna.

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