num_pages: 464
description: Set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep. As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. --Margaret Prior
language: English
title: Daughter of Fortune
titlecomplete: Daughter of Fortune
characters: Tao Chi'en, Joaquín Andieta, Jacob Todd, Eliza Sommers, Rose Sommers
genres: Spanish Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 128942
places: San Francisco, California, Chile, Valparaíso, California
series: Involuntary trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Valle-Inclán
category: Margaret Sayers Peden
publisher: HarperVia