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A Woman Unknown by Lucia Graves (Hardcover, 1999)
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Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves and his wife Beryl, grew up in the beautiful village of Deia on the island of Majorca. Author:Graves, Lucia. A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish Life.
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Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves and his wife Beryl, grew up in the beautiful village of Deia on the island of Majorca. Neither Spanish nor Catholic by birth, she nevertheless absorbed the different traditions of Spain and felt the full impact of Franco's dictatorship through the experience of her education. Lucia found herself continually bridging the gaps between Catalan, Spanish and English, as she picked up the patterns and nuances that contain the essence of each culture. Portraying her life as a child watching the hills lit up by bonfires on Good Friday, or, years later, walking through the haunting backstreets of the Jewish quarter of Girona, this is a personal memoir which provides a first-hand account of Catalonia, where Lucia lived and raised a family. It is also a perceptive appraisal of a country burdened by tradition yet coming to terms with political change as the decades moved on.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781860494871
eBay Product ID (ePID)86514270
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Woman Unknown
AuthorLucia Graves
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width135mm
Item Weight500 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLucia Graves
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 28 Aug, 2022
For any woman living abroad
l discovered Lucía because she translated bestseller Carlos Ruíz Zafón's SHADOW of the WIND so incredibly which made me research what she had written herself. She gives an account of growing up in any society where we were not born and perhaps feeling in the twilight zone between each culture - a nomansland - belonging neither in one nor the other while loving and identifying with both and speaking both languages perfectly. Having lived for over a decade in a land l loved, and where its people were warm and embracing, l identified with her account. If l were to write my own account of that era l would entitle my own story EPOCA de LOS ABRAZOS. 💌Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
