Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune - Spanish-language Edition

Isabel Allende

Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune - Spanish-language Edition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Country
United States
Published
7 March 2017
Pages
448
ISBN
9780525433514

Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune - Spanish-language Edition

Isabel Allende

Un retrato palpitante de una epoca marcada por la violencia y la codicia, con entranables personajes. Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaiso en 1849, el ano en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquin Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la busqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraidos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo comun. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un medico chino, quien la conducira de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciones de la condicion humana. Hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una epoca marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasion y el valor. En esta su mas ambiciosa novela, Isabel Allende presenta un universo fascinante, poblado de entranables personajes que, como tantos otros de la autora, se quedan para siempre en la memoria y el corazon de los lectores. Resena:
Isabel Allende se caracteriza por su precisa y poetica adjetivacion, y el estilo aqui ha sido especialmente cuidado. Deleitara a un publico mayoritario.
Joaquin Marco, El Cultural

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful… . 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.

Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Chileans, including Joaquin, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaquin’s child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover.
In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, Eliza must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. 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.

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