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Author:

Allende, Isabel.

Title:

Daughter of fortune : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

Edition:

First HarperVia paperback.

Publisher:

HarperViaan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 484 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Chilean fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
Women--California--Fiction.
Chileans--California--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Male impersonators--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--California--Fiction.
Gold mines and mining--California--Fiction.
Stowaways--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif)--Fiction.
California--Gold discoveries--Fiction.
California--History--1846-1850--Fiction.
Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
History.
Magic realist fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Peden, Margaret Sayers, translator.

Notes:

Featured in Oprah's Book Club 2000.

Summary:

Raised in the British colony of Valpara©Ưso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu©Ưn Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California, Chileans, including Joaqu©Ưn, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaqu©Ưn'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.

ISBN:

0063021749
9780063021747

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1150853520

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SZPC124 -- Kothe Memorial Library (Parkersburg)