Though the titular 'two words' are never directly mentioned in the story, it is widely presumed that they are 'Te amo,' 'I love you' in Spanish. When El Mulato presents Belisa to The Colonel, they stare at each other before holding hands. El Mulato abducts Belisa, believing she has the power to cure The Colonel. After Belisa leaves The Colonel becomes sick, causing El Mulato to believe Belisa cursed him. The Colonel offers to pay Belisa for her services, but she instead gives him two secret words and goes back to her life selling words in the village. With Belisa's help, The Colonel is able to learn the art of public speaking. There, she discovers writing through a newspaper, learns language through a dictionary, and starts selling 'words.' When a rebel (in the Mexican Civil War) dubbed The Colonel decides he wants to become more benevolent and presidential, he sends his man El Mulato to find Belisa and bring her to him. When she is a child, she runs away from home across plains into a small village. Like the famous Arabic tales, these stories combine fantasy with biting social satire and psychological insight.' Contents Storyīelisa Crepusculario sells various 'services' related to words and languages. The literary critic Bárbara Mujica wrote: 'The Chilean author presents her stories through the age-old device used by Scheherazade: the narrator tells them to her lover to entertain him.

It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna. The Stories of Eva Luna ( Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende.

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