The Seamstress
by:
Daniel Hahn (author)
María Dueñas (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670920020 (0670920029)
Publish date: April 1st 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 618
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
War,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
World War II,
Spanish Literature,
Spain
This is a fun, lively work of historical fiction, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It follows the adventures of Sira Quiroga, who in the 1930s is a young, immature Spanish seamstress from a working-class background. She makes some poor life decisions which leave her alone in Morocco, indebted and unable ...
La trama mi è sembrata subito interessante e le prime pagine promettevano molto bene, ma le troppe descrizioni e le tante divagazioni tra un evento degno di nota e l'altro hanno reso il tutto eccessivamente prolisso. Di 650 pagine, almeno un centinaio o più potevano tranquillamente essere omesse,il ...
Overly wordy and too drawn out to keep my interest.
Is there an Adult Version of this book? XD
A fairly linear narrative which really read like a romantic suspense novel. Don't like Mario Vargas Llosa's name and quote on the cover put you off.
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