In 'Sira', her new novel, the characters from ‘El tiempo entre costuras’ return; an adventure story that portrays the survival and pragmatism of the Franco dictatorship.

So many things happen in ‘Sira’ (Planeta Publishers), the novel by María Dueñas that continues the story 12 years later of ‘El tiempo entre costuras’, that it is almost impossible to summarize. First, there is a wedding, then a pregnancy, then a bomb, a death, a trip, a romance, a scam, a blackmail, a kidnapping, falling in love . . .

There is journalism, there is espionage and there is fashion. There is luxury and there is poverty. The villains of ‘El tiempo entre costuras’ reappear, but also the good secondary characters come back. Franco, Eva Perón, Luis Cernuda, Tom Burns, Agustin de Foxá, Paul Bowles, all of them make an appearance.  The novel takes place in Gibraltar, Jerusalem, London, Madrid, Barcelon a?nd Tangier. 

From one adventure to the next. As in a 19th century classic, Sira Quiroga, María Dueñas’ heroine, who gives the book its title, gradually builds herself as a character closer to our time.

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