A novel by this author intertwines the stories of the 7-year-old (-5[1])refugee Anita Díaz arriving in Arizona in 2019 and the 5-year-old Samuel Adler escaping Vienna (10[1])in 1938. This author created a character who works as a cook and pianist for a traveling caravan of sex workers and ultimately falls in love with an acupuncturist. (10[2])That character (10[1])created by this author travels to California disguised (10[1])as a (10[1])gay man in search (10[1])of her (10[1])lover, who may be the bandit Joaquin Murieta. (10[2])This author of Daughter of Fortune (10[6])wrote (10[1])a novel (10[5])in which (10[1])Tránsito (10[1])Soto (10[3])helps a man to rescue his granddaughter, (10[2])Alba, from a (10[1])sadistic colonel. In that novel by this author, Blanca and Pedro Tercero flee (10[1])to Canada with the help of Esteban Trueba following (10[1])a (10[1])military coup. For 10 points, name this author of The House of the (10[2])Spirits. ■END■ (10[5]0[2])