by Isabel Allende · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401329463
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (368 pages, in Spanish).
In Valparaíso in 1849, Eliza Sommers follows her beloved Joaquín Andieta to California, where he has gone in search of gold. Hidden on a sailing ship, she arrives in a land marked by greed and violence. With the help of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, her journey becomes a search for identity in which friendship and compassion emerge.
This 2002 edition belongs to the Éxitos collection from Plaza & Janés; the work was originally published in 1998.
A read for those interested in Isabel Allende's narrative and the Latin American historical novel of the nineteenth century.
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.
