6/24/2023 0 Comments Eva allende book![]() 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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