by Isabel Allende · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401012105
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the novel by Isabel Allende, published by Arete in 1999, in hardback (429 pages, in Spanish).
Eliza Sommers, a young Chilean woman, travels to California during the gold rush to reunite with her lover. The novel interweaves adventure and emotion, and explores identity, love, and the search for happiness.
For readers of literary fiction interested in adventure novels with a female protagonist and historical setting.
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.
