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Sirena Selena

2007-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sirena Selena by : Mayra Santos-Febres

Download or read book Sirena Selena written by Mayra Santos-Febres. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena: somewhere between "The Blue Angel" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" rises the legend of Sirena Selena, the diva-siren of the Caribbean whose boleros seduce and torment whoever dares listen. Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child, engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant, intensely lyrical tragi-comedy - part masque, part cabaret - about identity (class, race, gender) and "the hunger and desire to be other things."

Sirena Selena

2000-08-05 Fiction
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Release : 2000-08-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 277/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sirena Selena written by Mayra Santos-Febres. This book was released on 2000-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brought by Martha to audition for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts his/her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children, but hiding his true sexual nature. Sirena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child, engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant, intensely lyrical tragicomedy."--BOOK JACKET.

San Juan Noir (Akashic Noir)

2016-10-04 Fiction
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Release : 2016-10-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 060/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis San Juan Noir (Akashic Noir) by : Mayra Santos-Febres

Download or read book San Juan Noir (Akashic Noir) written by Mayra Santos-Febres. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rico's capital city enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of San Juan's best-known authors. “A welcomed addition to the publisher’s popular noir series, San Juan Noir has the distinction of being issued in two editions, English and Spanish, to more accurately reflect the Caribbean island’s bilingual culture. Editor Santos-Febres gathers a varied collection of stories she expects will ‘reveal a side of Puerto Rico otherwise obscured by the tourist trade and preconception.’” —NBC News Latino Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quiñonez, Mayra Santos-Febres, José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo, Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Charlie Vázquez, and Manuel A. Meléndez. Translated by Will Vanderhyden.

Any Wednesday I'm Yours

2005 Fiction
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Release : 2005
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Any Wednesday I'm Yours written by Mayra Santos-Febres. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.

Our Lady of the Night

2009-07-28 Fiction
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Release : 2009-07-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 923/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Night written by Mayra Santos-Febres. This book was released on 2009-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 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. 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 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. 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 breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.

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