El tiempo entre costuras (The Time in Between) [NOOK Book]

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Overview

(Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa y profesora titular en la Universidad de Murcia. Ha impartido docencia en universidades norteamericanas, es autorade trabajos académicos y ha participado en múltiples proyectos educativos, culturales y editoriales.

La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento, arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Juntos se instalan en Tánger, una ciudad mundana, exótica y vibrante donde todo lo impensable puede hacerse realidad. Incluso, la traición y el abandono.

Sola y acuciada por deudas ajenas, ...

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Overview

(Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa y profesora titular en la Universidad de Murcia. Ha impartido docencia en universidades norteamericanas, es autorade trabajos académicos y ha participado en múltiples proyectos educativos, culturales y editoriales.

La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento, arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Juntos se instalan en Tánger, una ciudad mundana, exótica y vibrante donde todo lo impensable puede hacerse realidad. Incluso, la traición y el abandono.

Sola y acuciada por deudas ajenas, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, la capital del Protectorado español en Marruecos. Con argucias inconfesables y ayudada por amistades de reputación dudosa, forja una nueva identidad y logra poner en marcha un selecto atelier en el que atiende a clientas de orígenes remotos y presentes insospechados.

A partir de entonces, con la contienda española recién terminada y la europea a punto de comenzar, el destino de la protagonista queda ligado a un puñado de personajes históricos entre los que destacan Juan Luis Beigbeder -el enigmático y escasamente conocido ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del primer franquismo-, su amante, la excéntrica Rosalinda Fox, y el agregado naval Alan Hillgarth, jefe de la inteligencia británica en España durante la segunda guerra mundial. Entre todos ellos la empujarán hacia un arriesgado compromise en el que las telas, las puntadas y los patrones de su oficio se convertirán en la fachada visible de algo mucho más turbio y peligroso.

Escrita en una prosa espléndida, El tiempo entre costuras avanza con ritmo imparable por los mapas, la memoria y la nostalgia, transportándonos hasta los legendarios enclaves coloniales del norte de África, al Madrid proalemán de la inmediata posguerra y a una Lisboa cosmopolita repleta de espías, oportunistas y refugiados sin rumbo.

What People Are Saying

Esmeralda Santiago
"¡Me encantó!" --Esmeralda Santiago, autora de Conquistadora
Javier Sierra
“Destinada a ser un clásico literario." --Javier Sierra, autor bestseller del New York Times
Juan Gomez-Jurado
El tiempo entre costuras es una magnífica novela que reúne a la perfección la historia y la intriga. Sira Quiroga - la costurera - no será fácil de olvidar.” —Juan Gómez-Jurado, autor de The Moses Expedition
Mario Vargas Llosa
“Una novela maravillosa, con intriga, amor, misterio y ternura."Mario Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Mayra Montero
"Tiene el aire cinematográfico de Casablanca y el poderoso estilo de una novela de amor y de intriga.” --Mayra Montero autora de Son de Almendra

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781451649864
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Publication date: 9/6/2011
  • Language: Spanish
  • Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
  • Pages: 512
  • Sales rank: 24,740
  • File size: 1 MB

Meet the Author


Maria DueÑas holds a PhD in English Philology and is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities, is the author of several academic articles, and has participated in various educational, cultural, and editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 5, 2012

    La recomiendo

    Buena novela, muy entretenida y de facil lectura con una protagonista cargada de fuerza.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2011

    boring, boring and rediculous!

    I thought I would never finish reading this book. I kept putting it down and wishing I could find something interesting the author would say in the following pages. She repeates so many of the same, I started to wonder if she forgot where she was going with it? At the end she even forgets some of the caracters (like what happened to the mother?)Spy, really?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2012

    Te engancha sin darte cuenta

    Muy interesante, divertida, que tiene una barnizada de Historia sin dejar de lado la trama romantica y un moderado suspenso. Es una novela que pasando los primeros capitulos te va envolviendo poco a poco y sin darte cuenta, hasta el punto de que en los capitulos finales no quieres dejar de leer.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2012

    Muy entretenida, mantuvo mi interés de principio a fin!!!

    Muy entretenida, mantuvo mi interés de principio a fin!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2012

    Excellent! Highly entertaining!

    Read the book in its Spanish original. Had never read anything by Maria Dueñas before and I'm now trying to find out if she's written other books. El Tiempo Entre Costuras has history, romance, espionage and keeps the reader interested at all times. I would definitely recommend it and indeed, have recommended it to many friends. Ms. Dueñas has a fine way with words.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2011

    Great read

    Once you start reading can't put it down. Outstanding

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