![]() ![]() When they disembark, Eliza is disguised as a boy, and she spends the next four years in male attire so she may travel freely and safely. During the voyage with Eliza, Tao nurses her through a miscarriage. Years later, while tending to a sailor in colonial Hong Kong, he is shanghaied and forced into service at sea. Tao Chi'en's own story-richly textured and expansively told-begins when he is born into a peasant family and sold into slavery, where it is his good fortune to be trained as a master of acupuncture. Enlisting the unlikely aid of Tao Chi'en, a Chinese shipboard cook, she stows away on a ship bound for San Francisco. Now a 16-year-old, and newly pregnant, Eliza decides to follow her lover, fiery clerk Joaqu n Andieta, when he leaves for California to make his fortune in the gold rush. ![]() The alluring tale begins in Valpara so, Chile, with young Eliza Sommers, who was left as a baby on the doorstep of wealthy British importers Miss Rose Sommers and her prim brother, Jeremy. ![]() Allende expands her geographical boundaries in this sprawling, engrossing historical novel flavored by four cultures-English, Chilean, Chinese and American-and set during the 1849 California Gold Rush. ![]()
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