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Our lady of the night

The epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madam 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 FornarIs, 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.

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  • "The epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madam 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 FornarIs, 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."@en
  • "Doña Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer is one of the most powerful, respected and feared women of her city. Mayra Santos-Febres chronicles the social ascent of this woman in a novel that speaks of passion and ambition and the inequality between a rich bourgeoisie and a city filled with poverty."
  • "A fascinating story of destinies that mingle and cross, of the human capacity to endure, this is a story of impossible love and passion. The novel's main characters, Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer, and the male members of the Fornaris family, live in Puerto Rico during the 20th century. Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the most intimate voices in Spanish language literature, has created an sensual narrative filled with color and poetry."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Roman portoricain"
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  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Nuestra senora de la noche"
  • "Nuestra señora de la noche"
  • "Our lady of the night"@en
  • "Nuestra señora de la noche"@es
  • "Our lady of the night a novel"@en
  • "Nuestra Señora de la Noche : a novel"@en
  • "Nuestra Señora de la noche"
  • "Our lady of the night : a novel"
  • "Nuestra Señora de la Noche"

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