{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-night-a-novel-isbn-9780061731303","title":"Our Lady of the Night: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 Fornarís, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 Fornarís, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Each of her sultry novels pierces through your flesh and bone and beats to the rhythm of your body. Mayra is an explosion of life on each page.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArturo Pérez-Reverte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A complicated look into the notorious woman’s struggle for a liberated and independent life, the book takes a boldly feminist stance that, thankfully, is not a woeful account of maternal guilt…Isabel remains, to her tragic end, a marvelously constructed character.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887805100261,"sku":"NP9780061731303","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061731303.jpg?v=1730227507","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/our-lady-of-the-night-a-novel-isbn-9780061731303","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}