Set in the 1800's, Esmeralda Santiago's epic novel, "Conquistadora," tells two coming-of-age stories: one of its heroine, Ana Cubillas, the daughter of Spanish aristocrats who becomes head of a ...

Ana Cubillas would like to be a conquistador like her ancestors, but she was born a few centuries too late — and a woman. When she meets the handsome identical-twin brothers, Ramón and Inocente ...

Esmeralda Santiago. Knopf, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-96261-4 Santiago (Conquistadora) delivers an immersive intergenerational saga set in New York City, Maine, and Puerto Rico.

Read this excerpt from Esmeralda Santiago's new novel, "Conquistadora" ...

At first it’s difficult to understand why Ana Larragoity Cubillas — the heroic protagonist in Esmeralda Santiago’s Conquistadora — is so “enthralled by the land, ...

Hour 2. In 19 th century Spain, Ana Cubillas dreams of following in her ancestors’ footsteps and traveling to the new world as a Spanish conquistador. Bestselling writer ESMERALDA SANTIAGO makes her ...

Fox News Latino talks to Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago about her book, Conquistadora, a historical novel about a strong-willed woman in slave-holding 19th-century Puerto Rico.

The portrait of a strong, intelligent and enigmatic woman on the cover of Esmeralda Santiago’s exciting new novel hints at the character of the book’s heroine. Born in 1826, Ana Cubillas is ...

The portrait of a strong, intelligent and enigmatic woman on the cover of Esmeralda Santiago’s exciting new novel “Conquistadora” (Knopf) hints at the character of the book’s heroine. Born ...