by Isabel Allende · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401329821
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
In 1849, Eliza Sommers lives in Valparaíso when her lover Joaquín Andieta leaves for California because of the gold rush. She follows him in secret and, in a land of lonely men and prostitutes, her search becomes a journey of transformation. Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor, helps her navigate the chiaroscuros of the human condition.
The hardback edition was published in 2003 and has 448 pages; the work is catalogued under Literature and Fiction.
A work for readers of Isabel Allende and fiction with 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.
