As the fourth son in a poor family, he was known only as Fourth Son. Tao Chi’en is a Chinese zhong yi (a doctor). This is difficult, not only because a woman traveling to California is generally considered a prostitute, but also because she is pregnant. When Andieta decides the only way to make any money is to head off to California, where the Gold Rush has just started, Eliza is devastated but then determines to follow him. Of course, she cannot tell Jeremy and Rose, so conducts her affair in secret, aided only by her nanny, Mama Friesa.
They decide to keep the baby – they do not know who she is – and call her Eliza.Įliza, of course, grows up and, instead of falling in love with a nice English boy, she falls in love with a poor Chilean, Joaquín Andieta. Everything is calm and mundane till, one day, they find a baby on their doorstep, well wrapped in a basket. Their brother, John, a sea captain, intermittently joins them there. When Jeremy gets an opportunity to work for a British export firm in Chile, he takes advantage of this to remove Rose from England and they head off to Chile, never to return. However, as her brother, Jeremy, pointed out when he arrives at their love-nest, he omitted one key detail, namely that he was married with two children. The tenor told her everything about himself, including all his love affairs and even his Sadeian fantasies. Rose came closest to getting married when she eloped with a Viennese tenor. The three Sommers siblings – John, Jeremy and Rose – all remain single.
This is a rambling novel set in Chile and California in the middle of the 19th century, telling the tale of an English woman born in Chile and a Chinaman who had landed there by mistake. Home » Chile » Isabel Allende » Hija de la fortuna (Daughter of Fortune) Isabel Allende: Hija de la fortuna (Daughter of Fortune)
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