num_pages: 13
description: HarperAudio is proud to announce the first audiobook from Isabel Allende – மe of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade' Boston Globe From the acclaimed international bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and Paula comes this dazzling new historical novel, her most ambitious work of fiction yet – a sweeping portrait of an unconventional woman carving her own destiny in an era marked by violence, passion, and adventure. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 – a danger–filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation from innocence to independence.
language: English
title: Daughter of Fortune
titlecomplete: Daughter of Fortune
characters: Eliza Sommers, Jacob Todd, Joaquín Andieta, Rose Sommers, Tao Chi'en
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Adult, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 128954
places: California, San Francisco, California, Chile, Valparaíso
series: Involuntary trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Valle-Inclán
category: Margaret Sayers Peden
publisher: HarperAudio