5/28/2023 0 Comments María dueñas the time in between![]() Couturier and designer to the jet set-or perhaps better the Stuka set, given the era-Sira is well placed to hear the secrets of the fascists and their Nazi pals, learning along the way what she has always known-that no one is to be trusted, especially if they look and act like that man in the Dos Equis beer commercial. ![]() But Sira is a woman of resources, and from the shadowy depths of the Casbah she works herself up into high society, like Larissa Antipova’s mom in Doctor Zhivago. Those who remember their history will recall that the generalissimo began his revolt across the waters in Morocco, then under Spanish rule, a place to which Sira has been swept by a dashing but ultimately dastardly lover, who maroons her in the land of the Moors without a centavo. Sira Quiroga is a seamstress of fortune, a young woman who has just barely come of age when Franco and his fascist pals start mucking about in the roiled politics of 1930s Spain. Rick Blaine was a soldier of fortune and a failed romantic. ![]() The Germans wore gray.” So quoth Humphrey Bogart’s character in Casablanca, the tutelary spirit behind bestselling Spanish debut novelist Dueñas’ high-minded historical soap. ![]()
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