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The Sleeping Voice
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ISBN
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9781843432098
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Publisher
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Harvill Secker
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Subject
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Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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Binding
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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304
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Year
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2006
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Description
Passionate and intensely moving, The Sleeping Voice is a novel about the untold story of the women who were on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War.It is 1939 in the Ventas prison in Madrid: a group of women have been incarcerated for supporting or fighting on the Republican side in Spainx2019;s devastating Civil War. Among them is Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe, a man still fighting against Francox2019;s dictatorship. After giving birth to a baby girl, Hortensia is executed by firing squad. Later on, her husband will also be shot during an ambush, and her sister Pepita becomes her niecex2019;s guardian. Intertwined with these events is the inspiring, romantic and infinitely moving love affair between Pepita and the leader of a guerrilla group, Paulino (alias Jaime). Spanning the years 1939-1963, and based on the lives of actual women survivors of the Spanish Civil War (the x201C;sleeping voicex201D; of the title) who suffered death and imprisonment under the Franco regime, Dulce ChacxF3;nx2019;s bestselling novel is remarkable for its combination of dramatic intensity and historical authenticity.
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Author Biography
Dulce ChacxF3;n was born in Spain in 1954. A prize-winning poet and novelist, her life was cut short by cancer just as The Sleeping Voice was establishing her reputation throughout Europe.
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