En El amante turco, Esmeralda finalmente se libera y supera una lucha monumental con su madre?solo para caer bajo la esclavitud de "el turco" y descubrir que la pasion romantica tambien puede ser una prision. Su viaje de liberacion y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, narrado de una forma sincera, y nos conduce hacia su triunfante graduacion de Harvard. El humanismo desenfrenado, el humor, y el valor psicologico que le dieron tanto exito a sus dos primeras memorias, estan una vez mas completamente expuestas en El amante turco, que satisfacera al numero de lectores fieles y lo aumentara. 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.