Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune (Spanish: Hija de la fortuna) is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in February 2000. It was published first in Spanish by Plaza & Janés in 1998. Isabel Allende says "of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life." "Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge." "Allende also believes that the novel reflects her own struggle to define the role of feminism in her life." Allende also wrote a sequel to Daughter of Fortune entitled Portrait in Sepia which follows Eliza Sommers' granddaughter.
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| Author | Isabel Allende |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hija de la fortuna |
| Translator | Margaret Sayers Peden |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Plaza & Janés (Spanish), Harper Collins |
Publication date | 1998 (Spanish) 1999 (English) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 428 |
| ISBN | 0-06-019492-8 (hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 41431043 |
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