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Sira
Written by Maria Duenas
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The charismatic protagonist from María Dueñas’s international bestseller The Time In Between returns in a sweeping novel of love and intrigue set against the tumultuous aftermath of World War II.
Former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace serenity with her British diplomat husband, Marcus, and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But tranquility proves elusive. Fate has other plans for Sira.
Installed in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and enmeshed in the murky world of shady operators, political menace, and catastrophic violence, Sira finds her future with Marcus put to the ultimate test. Forced to reinvent herself again, Sira travels to England and adopts a new identity as a journalist dispatched to Spain. But as her skills at cunning duplicity are put into play, the ghosts of her past follow, bent on wreaking havoc in her life.
Moving from turbulent Jerusalem and austere London to Franco’s Madrid and colonial Tangier, and peopled with formidable real-life historical figures, Sira cuts an unforgettable path through the danger, stratagems, chaos, and promise of some of the most momentous events of the postwar era.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBrilliance Audio
TranslatorSimon Bruni
Release dateSep 26, 2023
ISBN9798400147975
Author
Maria Duenas
María Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa. Tras dos décadas dedicada a la vida académica, irrumpe en el mundo de la literatura en 2009 con El tiempo entre costuras, la novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y cuya adaptación televisiva de la mano de Antena 3 logró numerosos galardones y un espectacular éxito de audiencia. Sus obras posteriores, Misión Olvido (2012), La Templanza (2015), y Las hijas del Capitan (2018) continuaron cautivando por igual a lectores y crítica. Traducida a más de treinta y cinco lenguas y con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, María Dueñas se ha convertido en una de las autoras más estimadas tanto en nuestro país como en América Latina. Sira es su quinta novela.
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