Esmeralda Santiago's novel "The Conqueror", which the authoritative American weekly "Publishers Weekly" called the Puerto Rican version of "Gone with the Wind", is the first work of the writer published in Russian. Catholic boarding school, marriage, prosperous life with family, in the shadow of a spouse … No way! Independent, stubborn Ana rushes away from her native Seville to become the mistress of a sugar plantation across the seas and oceans, on the distant island of Puerto Rico - to become the undivided mistress of her destiny. In this saga about the conquest of the earth, about overcoming the conventions of environment and upbringing, tender love coexists with stormy, forbidden passion, the dream of female happiness - with the readiness to sacrifice any sacrifices on the altar of the cherished goal. It is not for nothing that among Ana’s ancestors there were fearless conquistadors: in the fragile but brave Ana lives the indomitable spirit of the conquerors of bygone times.