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The barefoot queen / by Ildefonso Falcones.
- Title
- The barefoot queen / by Ildefonso Falcones.
- Author
- Falcones de Sierra, Ildefonso, 1959-
- Publication
- London : Doubleday, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ6656.A375 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Lethem, Mara
- Description
- 694 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 1748, Seville: Caridad, a recently freed Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When she meets Milagro Carmona - a young, rebellious gypsy - the two women are instantly inseparable. Milagros introduces Caridad to the gypsy community, an exotic fringe society that will soon bring them love and change their life forever. From the tumultuous bustle of 18th-century Seville to the theatres of Madrid, THE BAREFOOT QUEEN takes us into the murky world of tobacco smuggling and ther persecution of the gypsies.
- Uniform Title
- La Reina Descalza. English
- Alternative Title
- La Reina Descalza.
- Subject
- Spain > History > Bourbons, 1700- > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Note
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "1748: a slave girl and a gypsy. Separated by persecution, reunited by strength." -- cover. -1748, Seville: Caridad, a recently freed Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When she meets Milagro Carmona -- a young, rebellious gypsy -- the two women are instantly inseparable. Milagros introduces Caridad to the gypsy community, an exotic fringe society that will soon bring them love and change their life forever.
- ISBN
- 9780857522269 (pbk.)
- 0857522264 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 881020675
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library