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Author Santos-Febres, Mayra, 1966-

Title Our lady of the night : a novel / Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated from Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.

Imprint New York : Harper Perennial, ©2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-SANTOS-FEBRES    Check Shelf
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 356 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Originally published in Spanish as Nuestra señora de la noche in Spain in 2006 by Espasa Calpe"--Title page verso.
Summary "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 novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for."--Jacket.
Subject Brothels -- Fiction.
Brothels -- Puerto Rico -- Fiction.
Puerto Rico -- Fiction.
Brothels. (OCoLC)fst01765181
Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Fiction.
Novels.
Added Author Mestre-Reed, Ernesto.
Added Title Nuestra Señora de la Noche. English
ISBN 9780061731303 (alk. paper)
0061731307 (alk. paper)
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