Allende, Isabel

Daughter of Fortune : A Novel Isabel Allende ; translated from the spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - - New York : HarperCollins, c1999. - viii, 399 p. : map ; 25 cm

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.

9780060194918




Gold mines and mining--California--Fiction


California--History--1846-1850--Fiction
California--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction