by Isabel Allende · tapa dura · ISBN 9789724221304
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«Filha da Fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Círculo de Leitores in hardback (407 pages, in Portuguese).
In Valparaíso in 1849, young Chilean Eliza Sommers watches her lover Joaquín Andieta leave for California, where gold has been discovered. She decides to follow him in secret, hidden in a ship's hold, and in California, with the help of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, her search for her lover transforms her into an independent woman.
First instalment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy; original title «Hija de la fortuna», Portuguese translation by Maria Helena Pitta, published in 1999.
For readers of historical fiction and magical realism, especially fans of Isabel Allende.
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.
