Name: Hija de la fortuna (in Spanish)
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Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9788484503835

Type

Physical Book

Author

Isabel Allende

Publisher

Debolsillo

Language

Spanish

Pages

438

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

12 x 19 cm

ISBN13

9788484503835

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Hija de la fortuna (in Spanish)"

Eliza Sommer es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante , Joaquín andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afectos de un medico chino que la conducirá en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciones de la condición humana.
Hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia, en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor la amistad, la compasión y el valor.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende was born in 1942, in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile and lived in various places during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in 1973 in Chile, she went into exile in Venezuela and since 1987 has lived as an immigrant in California. She defines herself as an "eternal foreigner."

She began her literary career in journalism, in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982 her first novel, The House of the Spirits, became one of the legendary titles of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have been international successes. Her work has been translated into forty languages and has sold more than seventy million copies, making her the best-selling Spanish-language writer.

She has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literature Prize in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in Denmark, in 2012, for her trilogy "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" and the Medal of Freedom in the United States, the highest civilian honor, in 2014. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Spanish-language writer awarded the medal of honor of the National Book Award, in the United States for her significant contribution to the world of letters.

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