by Isabel Allende · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439598138
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«Hija de la fortuna» is Isabel Allende's historical novel, published by Planeta Deagostini in 2003 in hardback, in Spanish.
In 1849, with the California gold rush, the young Chilean woman Eliza Sommers leaves Valparaíso to follow her lover Joaquín Andieta. On that journey, accompanied by the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, she discovers a world of lonely men and prostitutes marked by violence and greed, and becomes an extraordinary woman; love, friendship and compassion sustain the protagonists.
First instalment of Isabel Allende's involuntary trilogy, published in the Biblioteca Isabel Allende collection.
For readers of historical novels and romantic fiction set in the 19th century.
Beatrice Cynthia Freeman, later Beatrice Feinberg, best-known under the pen name Cynthia Freeman, was an American romance novelist. She was known for multigenerational romances centered on Jewish family life and the drama of immigration and cultural assimilation.
