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The Seamstress (Paperback)
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The Seamstress (Paperback)
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List price R301
Loot Price R138
Discovery Miles 1 380
You Save R163 (54%)
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Emilia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow
up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of
Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how
to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. Emilia treasures pretty,
girlish things and longs to escape from the confines of the little
town. Captivated by the romances she reads in magazines, she dreams
of finding love in the bustle and glamour of the city. Luzia,
scarred by a childhood accident that has left her with a deformed
arm, knows that for her, real life can not be romantically
embroidered, and so she finds solace in her sewing and in the
secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. But
when Luzia is abducted by a gang of rebel bandits, the sisters'
lives diverge in ways they never imagined. Whilst Luzia learns to
survive in the unforgiving Brazilian outland, discovering love in
the most unexpected of places, Emilia meets the son of a wealthy
doctor who seems to offer her everything she has always desired.
But for the innocent dreamer, the excitement of her escape to the
city is soon overshadowed by disillusion and loneliness. As she
learns how to navigate the treacherous waters of Brazilian high
society, the bandits' campaign against the land-owning 'Colonels'
intensifies, and when a price is placed upon Luzia's head Emilia
realises she must risk everything in order to save her sister.
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