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Written by Isabel Allende - Audio book performed by Blair Brown - Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden - Unabridged Fiction - 10 CASSETTES 13 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio (October 1999)

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The printed edition of this title is an Oprah's Book Club Selection!

Comments about the hardcover edition of this title:

New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant."

Washington Post
"Like a slow, seductive lover, Allende teases, tempts and titillates with mesmerizing stories."

Boston Globe Magazine:
"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade."

Miami Herald
"A classic story from one of the foremost and beloved storytellers of our time. Daughter of Fortune proves again Allende's ability to hold the world spellbound with her tales."

In 1843, a baby is left on the doorstep of Rose Sommers and her brother Jeremy, who live in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile. Rose names the baby Eliza and raises her as part of the family. When Eliza falls in love with Joaquín Andieta, one of Jeremy's delivery boys, news of the gold in California has just reached Chile. Joaquín, caught up in the popular fever, sets out to make a fortune up north, leaving behind Eliza, now pregnant with his child. Spirited and with a mind of her own, Eliza leaves her home in Valparaíso and undertakes a dangerous sea voyage to San Francisco in search of her lover. What she finds instead is adversity and adventure and, through her own resourcefulness, an even more momentous journey to independence and freedom. When she finally hears news of Joaquín, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.