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Sto caricando le informazioni... Our Lady of the Night: A Novel (edizione 2009)di Mayra Santos-febres
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. DNF pg. 77. No rating; didn't read enough to fairly give it one. I picked this one up because the actual person that the book is about sounded like an interesting topic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_la_Negra). However, the style of the book, very heavy on poetic language and internal monologues, and, in what I read, light on actual historic detail, just didn't grab me. It may just have been my mood at the time, but I ended up leaving my copy of the book in Puerto Rico. Hopefully someone else will find and appreciate it! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel "La Negra" Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island. Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status--armed with incredible physical presence, indomitable ambition, and keen intelligence--she meets Fernando Fornarís, the man who will forever change her life. With a parcel of land given to her by her rich, white married lover, Isabel transforms herself into a hard-edged and merciless businesswoman--abandoning her own newborn son to become Puerto Rico's most feared and respected madam, a collector of society's secrets, a queen of the notorious brothel that emerges as the island's true political and economic heart. Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)863.64Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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There is much attention to detail throughout the book making me think Santos-Febres did her research regarding the time period. She consistently names the streets her characters take throughout the book, allowing readers familiar with the locations to place themselves in Ponce, Puerto Rico. ( )