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01775aam a22003258i 4500 001 01BAD3383BA511EC87B0DC564EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211102011932 008 210607s2021 enk a 000 f eng d 020 $a 1913744019 020 $a 9781913744014 035 $a (OCoLC)1255865484 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OQX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h cat 100 1 $a Arquimbau, Rosa Maria, $d 1910?-1992, $e author. 240 10 $a Quaranta anys perduts. $l English 245 10 $a Forty lost years / $c Rosa Maria Arquimbau ; translated by Peter Bush. 264 1 $a London : $b Fum D'Estampa Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 156 pages : $b illustraions ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Translated from the Catalan. 520 $a Published for the first time in 1971, Forty Lost Years tells the captivating story of Laura Vidal, a working-class woman who becomes a high-fashion dressmaker to the bourgeois ladies of Barcelona during Franco's dictatorship. Beginning in 1931, with the proclamation of the Republic, and ending in the 1970s, Rosa Maria Arquimbau's masterpiece paints a vivid picture of forty years in Catalan history. Weaving the personal and the political, Forty Lost Years is a bitter tale that immerses readers into the frivolous atmosphere of a sexually liberal republican Barcelona, and the despair of a country defeated by the Fascists. 650 0 $a Women dressmakers $z Spain $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Spain $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Barcelona (Spain) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bush, Peter R., $d 1946- $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220105021041.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=01BAD3383BA511EC87B0DC564EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search