Daughter of Fortune

A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel

by Isabel Allende

FictionHistorical FictionRomanceLiterary Fiction

French & European Pubns · First published 1998 · 444 pages

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