by Isabel Allende · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422676805
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Círculo de Lectores in 1999 in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
In 1849, Eliza Sommers, a young Chilean woman from Valparaíso, decides to follow her lover Joaquín Andieta, who has left for California attracted by the gold rush. Hidden in the hold of a sailing ship, she travels to a land of lonely men and prostitutes where she transforms into an extraordinary woman, with the help and affection of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en.
The work was originally published in 1998; this edition, from 1999, belongs to the Areté collection of Círculo de Lectores.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction, especially those who enjoy stories of travel and female characters.
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.
