by Isabel Allende · Harper Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780002259613
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«Daughter of Fortune» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Harper Collins in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The novel follows Eliza Sommers, raised in Valparaíso, who falls in love with the clerk Joaquín Andieta. When he leaves for California for the 1849 gold rush, she follows him and ventures into a world of prospectors and prostitution, with the help of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en. Her journey becomes a story of independence, identity, and love.
First installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy. Original title: Hija de la fortuna; English translation by Margaret Sayers Peden.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction interested in the work of Isabel Allende and in female protagonists who cross borders.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
