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Forty lost years / Rosa Maria Arquimbau ; translated by Peter Bush.
Van Pelt Library PC3941.A7456 Q3713 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arquimbau, Rosa Maria, 1910?-1992, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Quaranta anys perduts. English
- Language:
- Catalan
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women dressmakers--Spain--Fiction.
- Women dressmakers.
- History.
- Spain--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Spain.
- Barcelona (Spain)--Fiction.
- Barcelona (Spain).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Fum D'Estampa Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Catalan.
- ISBN:
- 9781913744014
- 1913744019
- OCLC:
- 1255865484
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