The seamstress
Dueñas, María, 1964-2012
Book
Aged 12, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover. But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds that she cannot return and so turns to her one true skill.
Main title:
The seamstress / María Dueñas ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Author:
Dueñas, María, 1964-, authorHahn, Daniel, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2012.
Collation:
615 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.This translation originally published: as The time in between. New York: Atria Books, 2011 ; as The seamstress. London: Viking, 2011.
ISBN:
9780670920037 (pbk)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
128901