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. “Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful.
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