by Claude Pujade-Renaud · Quetzal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725643556
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«A Camareira Real» is the historical novel by Claude Pujade-Renaud, published by Quetzal in paperback (322 pages, in Portuguese).
In 1714, after twenty years in the service of Philip V, Anne-Marie des Ursins meets Isabel de Farnesio, future queen; the encounter leads to her dismissal and exile. Years later, both recall that night and weave together a century of European history: Habsburg-Bourbon rivalries, political alliances and domestic intrigues of power.
Originally published as «La Nuit la neige» in 1998; this Portuguese edition, translated by Sandra Silva, appeared in April 1998.
For readers of historical fiction interested in female power, the Spanish court and European dynastic rivalries.
Claude Pujade-Renaud was a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. She subsequently published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on being a stepmother, and was a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
