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The Barefoot Queen
Ildefonso Falcones
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Description for The Barefoot Queen
Paperback. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 111 x 52. Weight in Grams: 492.
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.
Showing us the birth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784160418
SKU
V9781784160418
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Ildefonso Falcones
Ildefonso Falcones' first novel, Cathedral of the Sea became a publishing legend with over a million copies sold in Spain alone. It has since been published in over forty countries, becoming a European bestseller. In The Hand of Fatima, Falcones marked the four hundredth anniversary of the expulsion of the Moors from 17th Century Spain. His latest novel THE ... Read more
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