Books by María Dueñas
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review 1: Sure wish there were half stars. 3.5Maria Duenas’ second novel to appear in translation, The Heart Has Its Reasons, is dramatic in a different way from her previous international bestseller, The Time In Between, a novel that dealt with the suspense of both love and war. The Heart...
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review 1: This book is beautifully written, despite it being a translation. It's 600+ pages but I whipped through it. It takes place in Madrid, Morocco and Lisbon leading up to and during WWII. It's about a seamstress in Madrid, whose path is pretty clearly cut out for her (pardon the pun...
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review 1: Main character Blanca Piera leaves her job as a college professor in Madrid and heads to a small university in St. Cecelia, CA to give herself space to recover from her husband's infidelity and their divorce. Her new job is to research the life of a writer and professor, exiled ...
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review 1: NO VUELVO. Lo terminé porque era una lectura obligatoria, ¿si no? Le falta la historia, la trama, enganchar. Literalmente me quedaba dormida leyéndolo. Este libro es una muestra de que no todas las obras de un gran autor, y María Dueñas escribe realmente bien, son buenas.Sin emba...
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review 1: The publisher's summary calls this book "evocative, lyrical, and humorous."I agree with one of those.Blanca is, in many ways, emblematic of her name. She's white: she's a blank piece of paper, an innocent ready to be imprinted upon.When her husband announces that not only is thei...
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review 1: A Tad Long But Overall A Pleasant Read.This novel begins in Spain just before World War II. It was a commendable book although a tad long where some chapters could have been condensed to keep the reader from becoming bored. The main character Sira, was a dressmaker for several ...
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review 1: A nice writing about the pre-WW2 period in Morocco and Spain, considering the fact that it was elaborated nearly 70 years after. I enjoyed the way the characters develop and how the intrigue is growing. At some points I even wanted to skip the pages, but I kept reading and I fini...
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review 1: Meticulously researched, a good plotline with loads of action and a sympathetic character: The perfect hallmarks for a great historical fiction read. Sira, the main character, basically gets destroyed at the beginning of the book and left in Morocco close to the beginning of the ...
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review 1: I love strong female characters! Sira starts off as a naive young girl, but life turns her into a clever, audacious, and brave woman, who ends up playing an instrumental role in what is usually a man's game. With an exciting narrative that transports us from Madrid to Tetuan, and...