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Alfred A. Knopf
July 2011
On Sale: July 1, 2011
413 pages
ISBN: 0307268322
EAN: 9780307268327
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An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the
author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas
is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an
ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in
handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with
Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in
1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a
remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the
island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the
dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the
challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the
Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her
livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the
very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the
hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold
alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who
may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice
nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become
her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human
passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has
never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
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