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The seamstress
a novel
By Peebles, Frances De Pontes
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06073-887-7
- Publisher
- New York : Harper c2008.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2008
This engrossing historical saga of Brazil in the 1920s and 1930s follows sisters Em�lia and Luzia dos Santos from their impoverished childhoods as village seamstresses to their unimaginable futures: Em�lia marries the scion of an upper-class family in Recife, while Luzia marries The Hawk, an infamous bandit-cum-Robin Hood who terrorizes provincial landowners. Using as backdrop the populist revolt of 1930 and the push to de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
