Golden earrings
By: Belinda Alexandra
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pymble, N.S.W
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780732291952; 9781460754405
Subjects: Flamenco dancers; Fiction; Refugees; Secrets; Families
Description: From Civil War Barcelona to 1970s Paris, this is a story of two women. Paloma Batton, the grand-daughter of Spanish refugees, is a student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. Little gets in the way of her career until the visit of an otherworldly being, who leaves her a mysterious pair of golden earrings. Given a quest, Paloma realizes she must explore her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and 'La Rusa', a young Andalusian flamenco star. La Rusa died in exile in Paris in 1952, her death ruled as suicide. But as Paloma begins to discover, there were those in the Spanish emigre community, amongst them her grandmother, who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead.
Notes: Also available in electronic version via the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Paloma Batton is the grand-daughter of Spanish refugees who fled Barcelona after the Civil War. A disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet, Paloma lets little get in the way of her career until she receives a visit from an otherworldly being who leaves her with a pair of golden earrings. Realising that she has been given a quest, Paloma begins exploring her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and 'La Rusa', a young Andalusian girl who rose from poverty to become one of the great flamenco dancers of modern times. La Rusa died while living in exile in Paris in 1952. Her death was ruled as suicide but as Catalina begins to unravel the secrets of the tightly knit Spanish emigre community, she discovers more than one person who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead, including Paloma's own grandmother. Golden Earrings is a story that moves between two great cities: Barcelona during the Civil War and Paris in the 1970s. It is the story of two women and the extremes to which they are willing to go for love. It is a story of great passions; title: and great betrayals; title: where nothing is quite as it seems.