by Isabel Allende · Bertrand Brasil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788528607437
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«Filha da Fortuna» is the romantic novel by Isabel Allende, published by Bertrand Brasil in paperback (470 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
In 1849, in the port of Valparaíso, Eliza Sommers watches her lover Joaquín Andieta leave, crossing to California drawn by the gold rush. Determined to find him again, she hides on a ship and, with the Chinese doctor Tão Chi'en, traverses a world of fortune seekers that transforms her into a woman in control of her own destiny.
First installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy. Originally published as «Hija de la fortuna» (1998) and nominated for the Valle-Inclán Prize in 2000.
For book clubs and readers of historical and romantic fiction who want a female protagonist in the gold rush.
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.
