Daughter of fortune
Subtitle: a novel
By: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Edition: 1st Perennial ed
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- California -- Fiction; California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction; California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Hija de la fortuna
Description: A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel