by Frances de Pontes Peebles · House of Books B.V., The · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044322842
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«De naaister van Pernambuco» is the historical novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles, published by House of Books in paperback (639 pages, in Dutch).
In 1928, sisters Emília and Luzia are separated when the younger is kidnapped by a group of rebels. Emília marries a doctor from Recife; Luzia joins the cangaceiros, a band fighting against large landowners. Despite the distance, Emília finds an indirect way to communicate with her sister.
Original title: «The Seamstress»; Dutch translation by Karina Zegers de Beijl. The plot is set in Brazil in the period 1919-1939.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative, with an interest in stories about sisters and early 20th-century Brazil.
