Author(s): Isabel Allende

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

"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."--Jacket.

Flamingo, 1999. Reprint. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped d/w. This copy is from the library of Sir William Heseltine, the former Principal Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth 11, and bears his bookplate to the front free endpaper.