"Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andiera, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth.
Joaquin takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him."--BOOK JACKET.
"So begins Isabel Allende's new novel, Daughter of Fortune, her most ambitious work of fiction yet. As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.
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"Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andiera, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth.
Joaquin takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him."--BOOK JACKET.
"So begins Isabel Allende's new novel, Daughter of Fortune, her most ambitious work of fiction yet. As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.
A society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves - with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en - California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaquin gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.
By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is."--BOOK JACKET.
Amaiera abrupto irekixa etxatak asko gustau: irakorle konbentzional xamarra naizen aldetik, garatutako harixak eta pertsonajiak zetan amaitzen dirazen jakitteko gogoz geratu nauk. Halan be, ordura arte liburua asko gustau jatak, erregular! Metropolixetatik independizau barriko hainbeste herrialde (Txile, Mexiko eta AEB), eta euren arteko tirabiretan, familia eta lagun batzuen nundik norakuak jarraitzen doguz. Neuretako interesantiena, Txileko izaera "estiraua", eta Kalifornia inguruko kaosa, AEBetako Sezesiño gerra aurretiko giruan.
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Gold mines and mining -- California -- Fiction
California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
