The barefoot queen
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ildefonso Falcones ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Contributors: Lethem, Mara, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 647
ISBN-13: 9780804139489
Subjects: Homeless women; Insurgency; Romanies; History; Women slaves; Fiction
Work titles: Reina descalza
Description: Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-century Madrid.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: La Reina Descalza.

Published in Spain by Grijalbo, 2013. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, 2014.