by Isabel Allende · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592536
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«Hija de la fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende, published by Debolsillo in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
In Valparaíso in 1849, Eliza Sommers discovers that her lover Joaquín Andieta has left for California in search of gold. She decides to follow him hidden on a sailing ship and, in a violent and greedy land, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en will help her transform into an independent woman.
This novel opens Isabel Allende's Involuntary Trilogy and belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
For readers of historical fiction and sagas, with a female protagonist and a coming-of-age story.
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.
