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Written by Esmeralda Santiago
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Language: English
Conquistadora is many vivid things all at once, and for the reader, they happen in your body, imagination and soul. It鈥檚 a swashbuckling adventure, visceral and ardent; it鈥檚 a historical novel so seamlessly told that you don鈥檛 realize your heart鈥檚 pounding even as your brain鈥檚 amassing a wealth of fascinating new knowledge. This is a book that is like that one small island you鈥檝e been longing for since the great adventure and pirate stories of childhood. But the island is real, and this novel tells a real story--an important piece of history--that has never been told before. It鈥檚 a story about Puerto Rico, Esmeralda Santiago鈥檚 birthplace, and it shows us the island in a way that we鈥檝e never seen before.
Here also is a portrait of characters I came to know and to care about, far from the usual New World stock cast of rapacious and greedy Spanish plantation owners chasing after slave and Creole girls. I was especially intrigued from the start by Ana, whom we first meet as a teenager in a convent in Seville in 1826, bent over the yellowing pages of some journals. (I have an established proclivity for historical novels that begin in convents!) Ana鈥檚 story, as every feisty convent girl鈥檚 life story should, begins and ends with rebellion: those journals belong to an ancestor of hers who journeyed to Puerto Rico with Ponce de Leon, and when Ana travels there just after her eighteenth birthday, she is a se帽orita de buena familia rebelling against expectations--of her class, her gender, and the time period. By 1865, she鈥檚 rich: a wealthy plantation owner on the island. She鈥檚 lost none of her fire. But when the slaves on whom her sugarcane business was built catch the winds of change when Lincoln is elected in the US, she may lose it all. In the decades in between, Ana loves and loses, and finds her true home and her destiny. Puerto Rico, like many tropical 鈥減aradises,鈥?turns out to be not the fantasy she鈥檇 dreamed on, but a harsh land with harsh realities--a place that rewards only the toughest. The surprising Ana is an irresistible heroine despite the history she carries. She is a woman of her time, for good or ill. A woman who by the end of this sweeping story, comes to define her life not just by all that she has conquered but also all that she has lost. Most importantly, she lives in the reader鈥檚 imagination.
Conquistadora is a novel that surpassed my every expectation. It brings a hitherto unknown swath of history alive through great storytelling and narrative verve.
Esmeralda Santiago has written a brilliant and blazingly alive novel, as engrossing and just plain fun as any I have read in a long while.
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