Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful.
But with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, Chinese doctor Tao Chi\'en, Eliza soon comes to discover that her search for love has become a quest of personal freedom..
In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, Eliza must navigate a society dominated by greedy men.
Eliza, pregnant with Joaqu n\'s child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover.
Chileans, including Joaqu n, head north to seek their fortune.
When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California.
Raised in the British colony of Valpara so, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu n Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. suspenseful and surprising.-- Denver Post From the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one young woman\'s quest to save her lover, set against the chaos, greed, and promise of the 1849 California Gold Rush. . . .
Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful
