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Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una divisioń de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante su adolescencia en España, Ana Larragoity Cubillas llega a sentir una poderosa atracción por Puerto Rico después de leer los diarios de un antepasado que colonizó la isla con Juan Ponce de León. Y en los apuestos gemelos Ramón e Inocente --que comparten su amor por ella-- encuentra una manera de llegar a la isla. Ana se casa con Ramón, y en 1844, con solo dieciocho años, cruza el océano para establecerse en una remota plantación...
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