Conquistadora Contributor(s): Santiago, Esmeralda (Author) |
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ISBN: 030738859X ISBN-13: 9780307388599 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.13" W x 8.01" (0.72 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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 Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente--both in love with Ana--she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and 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 in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure. |