num_pages: 419
description: When the rootless foundling Eliza Sommers, at the age of sixteen, falls for a striking young revolutionary called Joaquin Andieta it sets her life on a course of travels and adventures that will take her far away from her native Chile and the Enlgish household where she ahs been raised. In the frenzy of the American gold rush Andieta disappears. Eliza, desperate with love and determined to find him, stows away on a ship packed with sailors, adventurers, whores and a gentle Chinese doctor, bound for the harsh frontier town of San Fransisco.
language: English
title: Daughter of Fortune
titlecomplete: Daughter of Fortune
characters: Tao Chi'en, Jacob Todd, Joaquín Andieta, Rose Sommers, Eliza Sommers
genres: Magical Realism, Classics, Historical, Adult, Novels, Spanish Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 128943
places: Chile, Valparaíso, California, San Francisco, California
series: Involuntary trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Valle-Inclán
category: Margaret Sayers Peden
publisher: Harper Perennial