According to Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, theorist, poet, and award-winning writer, "for many years the Caribbean has been a desire factory for the rest of the World.[.]," thus her writing seeks to "include those issues considered exotic and reveal them as a different kind of knowledge: there is laughter, joy, a way of imagining desire ...
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 ...
Santos-Febres, the award-winning author ("Sirena Selena"), brings to life San Juan after dark in her seductive new novel, taking readers behind the doors of a motel on the border of nowhere and into the lives of four loners on the edge.
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 ...
According to Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, theorist, poet, and award-winning writer, "for many years the Caribbean has been a desire factory for the rest of the World.[.]," thus her writing seeks to "include those issues considered exotic and reveal them as a different kind of knowledge: there is laughter, joy, a way of imagining desire ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2000
Description: 214p., first printing, dj. This powerful first novel by the Afro-Puerto Rican poet centers on a Puerto Rican drag queen in the Dominican Republic. read more
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