Orphaned at birth Eliza Sommers is raised in the British
colony of Valpara?so 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 Joaqu?n Andieta 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. Joaqu?n takes
off for San Francisco to seek his fortune and Eliza
pregnant with his child decides to follow him. 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 Chien–California opens the door to a
new life of freedom and independence for the young
Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaqu?n 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.
- שם: Daughter Of Fortune
- מחבר: Isabel Allende
- תחום: סיפורת
- תת תחום: ספרות מתורגמת
- מקט: ORB-897105
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