![]() ![]() But with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, Chinese doctor Tao Chi’en, Eliza soon comes to discover that her search for love has become a quest of personal freedom. In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, Eliza must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. Eliza, pregnant with Joaquín’s child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover. Chileans, including Joaquín, head north to seek their fortune. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. ![]() Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. suspenseful and surprising.”- Denver Postįrom the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover, set against the chaos, greed, and promise of the 1849 California Gold Rush. ![]() But the book is a tribute to her deceased daughter Paula Frías Allende, who fell into a porphyria -induced coma in 1991 and never recovered. She intended to write a straightforward narrative about the darkest experience of her own life. “Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. Paula is a 1994 memoir by Isabel Allende. ![]()
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