A review by blueyorkie
Filha da Fortuna by Isabel Allende

4.0

This work is an exciting historical novel in which we find a young Chilean woman of English education, Eliza Sommers. In 1849, when gold has discovered in California, she lived in Valparaiso. Still, when her lover, Joaquin Andieta, leaves in search of fortune, she follows him and finds herself in the basement of a ship, willing to do anything to regain the love of his life. The infernal voyage and the search for a lover in a land of prostitutes and lonely men exalted by the gold fever make this young woman an unusual woman with only the help and affection of Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor. This work portrays a time marked by violence and greed in a universe populated by characters that remain forever in our memory.