by Isabel Allende · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006552314
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«Daughter of Fortune» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Eliza Sommers, an orphan raised in Valparaíso, falls in love with Joaquín Andieta, a young man without fortune. When he leaves for California during the gold rush, she follows him. With the help of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, her search for her lover becomes a journey of self-discovery and freedom.
First installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy. English translation by Margaret Sayers Peden.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, with a female protagonist and nineteenth-century setting; suitable for reading clubs.
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.
