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| - The novel is a "family saga". That is, it describes several families and their passing through time, in San Francisco. The novel is part of a trilogy featuring the same families. This work begins with the Lavette familly, a French-Italian couple who move to the USA and have a son. Mr. Lavette is a fisherman and teaches that job to his son, Daniel, from childhood. But disaster strikes. An earthquake shakes the city, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Daniel's parents die in a fire after that. He works for three consecutive days and gives the money to a friend of his father, Cassala, as a deposit. That is the beginning of the Bank of Sonoma and the beginning of the rise of Daniel to become a multimillionaire.
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| - The novel is a "family saga". That is, it describes several families and their passing through time, in San Francisco. The novel is part of a trilogy featuring the same families. This work begins with the Lavette familly, a French-Italian couple who move to the USA and have a son. Mr. Lavette is a fisherman and teaches that job to his son, Daniel, from childhood. But disaster strikes. An earthquake shakes the city, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Daniel's parents die in a fire after that. He works for three consecutive days and gives the money to a friend of his father, Cassala, as a deposit. That is the beginning of the Bank of Sonoma and the beginning of the rise of Daniel to become a multimillionaire. The friendship between Cassala and Lavette continues through time; they start many business together and Lavette takes loans from him. Lavette founds a company along with a Jewish friend, Levy, and they begin selling clothes and acquiring a fleet; Daniel wants to be faithful to his fisherman/seaman roots. After some time, they even buy a big ship, with money lent by Cassala. Danny meets Thomas Seldon, one of the richest men in San Francisco, who owns a bank. He meets Seldon's daughter too, Jean, during a meeting at the Seldon's residence, and immediately falls for her. After that, he decides he will live in Nob Hill and will make her his wife; his overwhelming desire for her and for powers begins to take shape. He succeeds but after some time, their mutual love is lost, Jean rejects him and she decides that both of them must sleep in different bedrooms. After some time, Daniel falls in love with the daughter of his employee, a Chinese girl called May Ling.
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