The Barefoot Queen
Pocketbok. Transworld. 2015. 892 sidor.
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Boken har aldrig lästs ut, har mest bläddrats igenom, och är nästan orörd. Är lätt kantstött i hörnen, så som pocketböcker lätt blir.
OBS att boken är på engelska.
Spain, 1748. Caridad is a recently freed Cuban slave wandering the streets of Seville. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When, by chance, she meets Milagros Carmona—a spellbinding, rebellious gypsy—the two women become inseparable. Caridad is swept into an exotic fringe society full of romance and art, passion and dancing.
But their way of life changes instantly when gypsies are declared outlaws by royal mandate and their world as a free people becomes perilous. The community is split up—some are imprisoned, some forced into hiding, all fearing for their lives. After a dangerous separation, Caridad and Milagros are reunited and join in the gypsies’ struggle for sovereignty against the widespread oppression. It’s a treacherous battle that cannot, and will not, be easily won.
From the bustle of Seville to the theatres of Madrid, The Barefoot Queen is an unforgettable historical fresco filled with characters that live, suffer, and fight for the lives of those they love, and for the freedom they can’t live without.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781784160418
- Titel
- The Barefoot Queen
- Författare
- Ildefonso Falcones
- Förlag
- Transworld
- Utgivningsår
- 2015
- Omfång
- 892 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 110 x 178 mm Ryggbredd 45 mm
- Vikt
- 494 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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 of Flamenco, it is a historical fresco filled with characters that live, love, fight and suffer for what they believe.
