by Isabel Allende · HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002259750
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«Daughter of Fortune» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by HarperCollins in hardcover (399 pages, in English).
Set in the nineteenth century, Eliza Sommers, a young Englishwoman raised in Chile, begins a quest when her lover Joaquín disappears in the California gold rush. During the journey, Eliza discovers love, her identity and the true meaning of fortune in a changing world.
Work originally published in Spanish as «Hija de la fortuna»; English translation by Margaret Sayers Peden. First installment of the Involuntary Trilogy.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction with a female protagonist, and for followers of Isabel Allende's narrative.
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.
