Intl. Fiction Exam 2 Prep

Isabel Allende, “Prologue”

characters- Rolf Carle and Eva Luna. Setting- their bed

Isabel Allende, “Two Words”

characters- belisa crepusculario and el mulato the colonel. setting- her village, crossed a dessert, south america

Isabel Allende, “The Gold of Tomas Vargas”

characters'- tomas vargas, wife antonia sierra, concha diaz concubine, storekeeper riad halabi, lieutenant. setting- fictional town agua santa in unnamed south american country

Isabel Allende, “If You Touched My Heart”

characters- amadeo peralta 32 year old man, 15 year old hortensia, indian woman maid, the three boys who find hortensia in the sugar mill. setting- latin america agua santa, underground cellar of an old sugar mill belonging to the Peralta family

Isabel Allende, “Walimai”

Characters- walimai the native man his name means wind, children of the moon, Ila girl he kills, white rubber makers. setting- the amazon rainforest in south america, their tribe is moved by white rubber collectors and robbers

Isabel Allende, “Simple Maria”

characters- Maria the prostitue, Greek sailor, dr. guevara her husband, her baby boy, servant. setting- calle republica, the boat, the caribbean

Isabel Allende, “Our Secret”

characters- unnamed man and woman. they are both foreign and abroad, both have scars and tortured pasts. setting- unnamed foreign city, two displaced immigrants from politically oppressed latin america. the caribbean?

Isabel Allende, “Phantom Palace”

characters- El Benefactor, Marcia, her og husband Ambassador Lieberman, invisible indians. setting- fictional south america, conquistadors arriving and taking indigenous people’s land, the summer palice, the capitol and small settlement in san jeronimo.

Isabel Allende, “And of Clay Are We Created”

characters- azucena (lily) 13 year old girl, rolf carle the reporter, eva luna narrator, president of the republic visits. setting- mud-burried village in the andean foothills of colombia after volcanic erruption.

Haruki Murakami, “UFO in Kushiro”

characters- Komura, his unnamed wife, coworker Sasaki and his sister Keiko and Shimao. setting- he works in todyo, then travels to Kushiro, Hokkaido in Japan. love hotel, noodle place

Haruki Murakami, “Landscape with Flatiron”

characters- Junko, Mr. Miyake fire builder, Keisuke surfer boyfriend. setting- seaside town in japan

Haruki Murakami, “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo”

characters-katagiri, frog, worm. setting- tokyo, katagiri’s house, street, hospital

Haruki Murakami, “Thailand”

characters- satsuki thyroid doctor, nimit the chauffeur, her ex alcoholic cheater husband, her dead dad, the 80 year old soul reader. setting- bangkok thailand conference and vacation, from kyoto japan, village, run down pool, hotel, plane

Haruki Murakami, “Honey Pie”

characters- junpei, sala, sayoko, takatsuki, masakichi and tonkichi the bears, earthquake man. setting- tokyo, japan. waseda university in tokyo, the zoo, sayoko’s condo

Yun Ko-Eun, “Hyeonmong Park’s Hall of Dreams”

characters- Hyeonmong Park, narrator pajama coordinator, Mrs. Wang anxious client, Chunsam writer. setting- South Korea, the dream building

Maria Luisa Bombal, “New Islands”

characters- yolanda, her brother federico, sylvester her past engagement, juan manuel the lawyer attracted to yolanda, juan’s dead wife elsa, his mom, his son billy. setting- argentine country estate, few hours from buenos aires.

Yun Ko-Eun, “Don’t Cry Hongdo”

characters- hongdo fourth grade, her mom, her dead father, her teacher, her friend Jinu, Cotton Candy Man, Minyeong Han bully, art teacher. setting- modern day south korea, school, home, outside

Isabel Allende

born in 1942 in Limu, Peru, daughter of diplomat, u.s. citizen now, early work as a journalist and translater

Haruki Murakami

born in kyoto, japan in 1944, lives in u.s., influence of western literature, from detachment to social commitment

Yun Ko-Eun

born in 1980 in seoul, south korea, blogosphere and travelogue background