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Daughter of Fortune

By Isabel Allende

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| Audio Cassette | 9780694522514

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HarperAudio is proud to announce the first audiobook from Isabel Allende – ‘one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade’ Boston Globe

From the acclaimed international bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and Continue

HarperAudio is proud to announce the first audiobook from Isabel Allende – ‘one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade’ Boston Globe

From the acclaimed international bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and Paula comes this dazzling new historical novel, her most ambitious work of fiction yet – a sweeping portrait of an unconventional woman carving her own destiny in an era marked by violence, passion, and adventure. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 – a danger-filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation from innocence to independence.

Critics

  • Rags from riches

    Expansive might be one word to describe Isabel Allende's new novel, which aspires to the dubious condition of historical saga despite taking place over a period of only 10 years. The complex plot, the wilfully unusual characters and their outlandish ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Daughter of Fortune

    Before a recent reading from her novel Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende remarked that the act of writing had helped her on a "journey through the shadows" after the death of her daughter from a rare illness several years ago. While one can appreci ... (read full critics)

    raintaxi published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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    Where there's a will, there's a way

    In the way of love there must be knowledge and ignorance so I have become both a dullard and a sage.

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    Turpentine said on May 17, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Gimme a bit knowledge about Chile and China in 1840s and the Gold rush. One sentence in the book sticks in my mind: " ... falling in love not with Joaquin Andieta, but with the idea of falling in love ..."

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    xYang said on Mar 5, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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