El Amante Turco / The Turkish Lover

En El amante turco, Esmeralda finalmente se libera y supera una lucha monumental con su madre, s lo para caer bajo la esclavitud de "el turco" y descubrir que la pasi n rom ntica tambi n puede ser una prisi n. Su viaje de liberaci n y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, narrado de una forma sincera, y nos conduce hacia su triunfante graduaci n de Harvard. El humanismo desenfrenado, el humor, y el valor psicol gico que le dieron tanto xito a sus dos primeras memorias, est n una vez m s completamente expuestas en El amante turco, que satisfacer al n mero de lectores fieles y lo aumentar . La suya es una voz fresca, apasionante, y necesaria. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this memoir, we become witness to the transformation of the little Puerto Rican girl who emigrated to New York with her single mother and ten siblings. Esmeralda Santiago finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become a prison. Esmeralda's journey of self-liberation and self-discovery is a daring one, candidly and zestfully recounted, and leads, most improbably, to her triumphant graduation from Harvard. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in El amante turco, which will both reward the author's faithful readership and extend it. Hers is a fresh, exciting, and necessary voice.