This could be attributed to the fact that, by the time, she was writing the novel she was in exile in Venezuela (Martinez 57). What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.Ī marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers. Isabel Allende’s personal and tragic connection to Chile From a careful review of the literature, one can argue that the author of this novel has a private and tragic connection to Chile. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chien. A sweeping portrait of the era of the Californian Gold Rush, a story rich in character, history, violence, and compassion. Joaqun takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.Īs Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth.
Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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