by Ildefonso Falcones · Transworld · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784160418
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«The Barefoot Queen» is the historical novel by Ildefonso Falcones, published by Transworld in paperback (896 pages, in English).
In Seville in 1748, Caridad, a newly freed Cuban slave, meets the gypsy Milagro Carmona and enters a persecuted community and the tobacco-smuggling trade. The action moves from Seville to the theatres of Madrid and portrays the birth of flamenco in a Spain marked by intolerance.
This is the English version of «La reina descalza», a novel originally published in Spanish in 2013.
For readers of historical fiction and 18th-century Spain, with an interest in gypsy culture and the origins of flamenco.
Barcelona lawyer and novelist, author of Cathedral of the Sea and The Heirs of the Earth, major Spanish-language historical-fiction hits.
