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Read Around the World: Chile

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 jean 6 comments

Olá!

Welcome to Chile in the 1840s. Isabelle Allende’s Daughter of Fortune has the honour of representing Chile in my efforts to read around the world.

Plot Summary: Daughter of Fortune is set in Chile and San Francisco in the 1840s. Eliza is born in Chile where she is raised and meets a lover who leaves for the gold rush in California. Discovering she is pregnant, Eliza stows aboard a ship in an attempt to follow him. She finds herself in a foreign land discovering who she truly is in a time where there aren’t many options for single, independent women.

It is said that Allende (who has lived in both Chile and the US) took seven years to research this novel and it shows in the details that stay with the reader year after year, even after the rest of the story fades.

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