How much can a person do for love? How much can they sacrifice for it? Chile, mid-19th century. Little Eliza is found at the door of a wealthy family's home, wrapped in a man's vest and placed in a Marseille soap box. Her astonished siblings adopt the child and create a prosperous home for her. However, Eliza's life will not be peaceful. It will be filled with danger, drama, and a twist of fate. When she falls in love for the first time with the wrong man, and he flees the country, she decides to follow him to America, which is experiencing a gold rush and an invasion of those seeking to make their fortune. Eliza will meet people both righteous and depraved, helpful and those who would exploit her. During her search, she will encounter the first Californian towns, if that's the right term for humble shacks, brothels, and prisons. She will encounter lawlessness, poverty, and disappointment, as well as searchers full of blind hope. Isabel Allende has once again proven her mastery. She brilliantly combines romance, historical fiction, and a healthy dose of adventurous adventure. "Daughter of Fortune" is a wonderful story about the wisdom of women and about a girl who decides to escape from a gilded cage to find her destiny. Isabel Allende (born 1942) is a Chilean writer and journalist. Her family was forced to flee to Venezuela after the 1973 coup d'état, which overthrew the then-president, her father's cousin, Salvador Allende, and brought Augusto Pinochet to power. She drew on these experiences to write her debut novel, "The House of the Spirits," which became an international bestseller and was adapted into a film with an all-star cast. She has published over 20 novels, including From Love and Shadow (1992), Daughter of Fortune (1998), The Tales of Ewa Luna (2000), Portrait in Sepia (2008), Ines, Mistress of My Soul (2008), The Japanese Lover (2016), and In the Dead of Winter (2018), which have been translated into 35 languages and have sold nearly 70 million copies worldwide. She has lived in the United States since 1987.
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