Our Lady of the Night - by Mayra Santos-Febres (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's <em>Our Lady of the Night</em> is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madam</p><p>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.</p><p>Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's <em>Our Lady of the Night</em> is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A complicated look into the notorious woman's struggle for a liberated and independent life, the book takes a boldly feminist stance that, thankfully, is not a woeful account of maternal guilt...Isabel remains, to her tragic end, a marvelously constructed character."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Each of her sultry novels pierces through your flesh and bone and beats to the rhythm of your body. Mayra is an explosion of life on each page."--Arturo Pérez-Reverte<br>
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