Vargas receives his comeuppance when one of his adulterous affairs comes back to haunt him, and his wife and concubine team up against him. The story concerns the buried gold of Tomás Vargas, a wife-beating, adulterous miser who is disliked by everybody in the town. Like the other stories in the collection, "The Gold of Tomás Vargas" takes place in an undetermined time in the fictional village of Agua Santa, which resembles a South American town. At the beginning of the short story collection, Eva Luna is responding to the request of her lover from the novel, Rolf Carlé, to tell him one of her stories. 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. A year later, it was translated into English and published by Atheneum as The Stories of Eva Luna. Isabel Allende's "The Gold of Tomás Vargas" was first published in Barcelona in the story collection, Cuentos de Eva Luna, in 1990.
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