by Isabel Allende · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341502
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by ARETE in hardcover (432 pages, in Spanish).
In 1849, Eliza Sommers, a young woman from Valparaíso, decides to follow her lover Joaquín Andieta to California, where the gold rush attracts prospectors and prostitutes. Hidden on a sailing ship, she arrives in a harsh and violent land; with the help of the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, her search transforms her into an extraordinary woman.
First installment of Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy.
For book clubs and for those seeking historical fiction with a female protagonist.
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.
