by Sarah Waters · Bizâncio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725304280
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«Toque de Veludo» is the historical romance novel by Sarah Waters, published by Bizâncio in paperback (432 pages, in Portuguese).
In Victorian England, Nan King, a girl of humble origins, achieves success in the music hall and, after a dissolute period, ends up recognizing herself as a lesbian in London's East End. The novel weaves together desire, identity and a historical setting as vibrant as it is somber.
The work originally appeared in English as «Tipping the Velvet» in 1998; this Portuguese edition was published in 2009. It received the Betty Trask Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
Recommended for fans of historical fiction and LGBT romance set in the Victorian era.
Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively. The latter novel was also adapted into the South Korean film The Handmaiden (2016).
