--Cristina Garca, autora de Soar en cubano y Mapas difusos, entre otros «Conquistadora es una novela maravillosa de opulenta trama, con una historia inolvidable que no solo ilustrar a los lectores con respecto a la fascinante historia de Puerto Rico en el siglo XIX, sino que adems los deleitar con una narrativa entretenida y de profunda sensibilidad. Un gran logro de una de nuestras mejores escritoras -Oscar Hijuelos, ganador del premio Pulitzer «Hamacas, corss, jerez, encajes, caa de azcar y un amor prohibido .- Oprah Winfrey
«La escritora le da vida a la historia caribea con personajes tan humanos como icnicos. La riqueza de su imaginacin y la exuberancia de su lenguaje maravillarn a los amantes de las novelas picas . -Publishers Weekly ENGLISH DESCRIPTION As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Len. And in handsome twin brothers Ramn and Inocente--both in love with Ana--she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramn, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda's slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny--a once-forbidden love--she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
--Cristina Garca, autora de Soar en cubano y Mapas difusos, entre otros «Conquistadora es una novela maravillosa de opulenta trama, con una historia inolvidable que no solo ilustrar a los lectores con respecto a la fascinante historia de Puerto Rico en el siglo XIX, sino que adems los deleitar con una narrativa entretenida y de profunda sensibilidad. Un gran logro de una de nuestras mejores escritoras -Oscar Hijuelos, ganador del premio Pulitzer «Hamacas, corss, jerez, encajes, caa de azcar y un amor prohibido .- Oprah Winfrey
«La escritora le da vida a la historia caribea con personajes tan humanos como icnicos. La riqueza de su imaginacin y la exuberancia de su lenguaje maravillarn a los amantes de las novelas picas . -Publishers Weekly ENGLISH DESCRIPTION As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Len. And in handsome twin brothers Ramn and Inocente--both in love with Ana--she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramn, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda's slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny--a once-forbidden love--she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
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