by Isabel Allende · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807816604
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«La figlia della fortuna» is the historical novel by Isabel Allende published by Feltrinelli in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
In 1832, Eliza Sommers, raised in Valparaíso by an English family, grows up between Victorian education and the popular world shown to her by Mama Freisa. When her lover Joaquín Andieta leaves for California because of the gold rush, she follows him. With the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en she travels to San Francisco, in a story of passions and discoveries.
It is the first installment of the author's «Trilogía involuntaria»; its original title is «Hija de la fortuna» (1998). The Italian translation is by Elena Liverani.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction seeking a female protagonist in nineteenth-century America.
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.
