num_pages: 256
description: Provides an eye-opening look at a series of remarkable and passionate letters that chronicle a tumultuous seventeenth-century love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer, written by the nun, Mariana Alcoforado, when her lover was forced to return to France. Reprint.
language: English
title: Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love
titlecomplete: Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love
genres: Historical, History, Womens, Portugal, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 187
publisher: Miramax