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stateofgrace -> RE: What Are You Currently Reading? (6/3/2005 11:38:48 AM)
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Auben, what did you think of Eva Luna? Zorro is the first Isabel Allende I think I've ever read, although I've seen some of her books in the Young Adult section while looking with my kids...and put them down after reading the back cover, since they seem to be pretty heavily into a combination of Native American/New Age spirituality. And she managed to work a lot of "spirituality" into Zorro as well, with Native Amerian spirituality while Diego is young (she makes his mother half-Native American in the book), Romny beliefs (occult stuff like palm reading) when Diego meets gypsies during his time in Spain as a teenager, and Voodo as he makes his way back into the Americas. There is some Christian stuff as well...I can't remember his name, but the priest that always figures prominently in Zorro stories (excpt for the Bandaris movies, which are about a different person becoming Zorro) comes into play before Diego is even born, with his parents.
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