EL TIEMPO ENTRE COSTURAS / TIME IN BETWEEN THE SEAMS
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Autor:
MARÍA DUEÑAS VINUESA
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
From book to video
Publisher:
EDITORIAL PLANETA
Publishing Year:
2021
She holds a PhD in English Philology and is Professor of English Philology at the University of Murcia. She has taught at American universities and worked on numerous educational, cultural and publishing projects. Her bestselling book, El tiempo entre costuras, became a bestseller and was translated into several languages. Subsequently, the Antena 3 television series and its rights were made available in more than 25 languages for translation.
Her subsequent works ‘Mission Oblivion’ ‘Temperance’ and ‘The Captain’s Daughters’ continued to captivate readers and critics alike. Translated into more than thirty-five languages and with millions of copies sold worldwide, María Dueñas has become one of the most esteemed authors in both Spain and Latin America.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
This contemporary novel, which has been made into a film, is about a young woman called Sira Quiroga who tells her story of how she leaves Madrid in pursuit of a love she barely knows and ends up in Tangiers, where he abandons her.
Alone and in debt, she goes to Tetouan where she is helped to forge a new identity and manages to open a dressmaking shop that attracts customers from all over the world.
When the Spanish war ends and the European war is about to begin, her fate depends on characters such as Juan Luis Beigbeder, Franco’s first foreign minister, his mistress, Rosalinda Fox, and Alan Hillgarth, head of national intelligence.
They push her to hide a shady business behind her work as a seamstress.
The story moves through different places, memories and moments of longing; talking about the North African colonies, the situation in Madrid in the post-war period, the spies in Lisbon or the situation of the aimless refugees. It takes place in haute couture workshops related to politics and secret service cases, while remaining loyal to loved ones and the people we love.
Written in splendid prose, Time in Between the Seams, is a gripping adventure in which haute couture workshops, the glamour of grand hotels, political conspiracies and shady secret service missions merge with loyalty to those we love and the irrepressible power of love.
