This Oprah Book Club selection tells of young, vivacious Eliza Sommers, who follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849--a danger-filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation for Eliza.
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..
What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.
But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi\'en.
As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men.
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.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits , Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman\'s quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
This Oprah Book Club selection tells of young, vivacious Eliza Sommers, who follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849--a danger-filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation for Eliza
