In nineteenth century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende’s extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world’s leading writers. In Eliza, Allende has created one of her most appealing hero*ines, an adventurous, independent minded, and highly unconventional young woman who has the courage to reinvent herself and to create her own destiny in a new country. Daughter of Fortune is a sweeping portrait of an era, a story rich in character, history, violence, and compassion. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is. Her search for the elusive Joaqu n gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom. A society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chien California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. As we follow her spirited hero*ine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough and tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. So begins Isabel Allende’s enchanting new novel, Daughter of Fortune, her most ambitious work of fiction yet. Joaqu n takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu n Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valpara so, Chile, by the well intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy.
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