by Isabel Allende · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006552321
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«Daughter of Fortune» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Set between the Anglophile Valparaíso and the California of the mid-19th-century gold rush, it follows young Eliza Sommers, raised as a foundling, who falls in love with Joaquín Andieta. When he leaves for California, she sets out to follow him on a sea voyage to San Francisco among sailors, adventurers and a Chinese doctor.
First instalment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy. Translated from Spanish into English by Margaret Sayers Peden; its original title is «Hija de la fortuna».
For readers of historical and romantic fiction who enjoy female protagonists and settings such as the California gold rush.
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.
