Author: Rosario Ferré
- Fiction
- Vintage Espanol 
- ISBN: 9780375700637
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Richard Heyer

The fortunes of the de la Valle family beginning on a sugar plantation and continuing into a San Juan rocked by violence are described in a novella followed by three related short stories. The stories of Don Julio, Doña Elvira and their descendants reflect the social changes in Puerto Rico during the Twentieth Century while raising many questions about race, religion and the possibilities of independence.