Isabel Allende

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”— Boston Globe “Allende is a genius.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review From Isabel Allende, the beloved New York Times bestselling author ofInés of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, and The House of the …

An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigidbrother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the …