Our Lady of the Night

Mayra Santos-Febres

Our Lady of the Night
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Country
United States
Published
11 August 2009
Pages
368
ISBN
9780061731303

Our Lady of the Night

Mayra Santos-Febres

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 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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