The Gold of Tomas Vargas Summary
Isabel Allende

The Gold of Tomas Vargas Summary

Isabel Allende's "The Gold of Tomás Vargas" was first published in Barcelona in the story collection, Cuentos de Eva Luna, in 1990. A year later, it was translated into English and published by Atheneum as The Stories of Eva Luna. The collection was inspired by Allende's 1988 novel, Eva Luna, in which the title character is a storyteller and screenwriter who alludes to many stories that she never tells. At the beginning of...

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