One of Latin America's most gifted novelists.
-- Washington Post Book World A finalist for the National Book Award for her 1995 novel, La casa de la laguna, Rosario Ferre is one of Latin America's most original andimportant writers.
In the four stories that make up Maldito amor Ferre explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico through one family, the aristocratic and contentious De la Valles.
The title story tells of the piratical Don Julio; his son.