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Author:
Falcones de Sierra, Ildefonso, 1959- author.
Title:
The barefoot queen : a novel / Ildefonso de Sierra Falcones ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Edition:
First American edition.
Publisher:
Crown Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
647 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Women slaves--Fiction.
Homeless women--Fiction.
Insurgency--Fiction.
Romanies--Fiction.
Madrid (Spain)--History--18th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Authors:
Lethem, Mara, translator.
Other Titles:
Reina Descalza. English
Notes:
Translation of: La Reina Descalza. Published in Spain by Grijalbo, 2013. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, 2014.
Summary:
Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-century Madrid.
ISBN:
0804139482
9780804139489
OCLC:
(OCoLC)871508653
Locations:
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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