![]() ![]() The jacket copy summarizes The Time In Between in three paragraphs, but the first two paragraphs - describing Sira as a young girl and a young woman in Morocco - represent only 100 pages of the novel. Though it does not occupy as much of the novel as one would guess, from either the dust jacket or the endpapers. (Want to know more? The author discusses how she created her in this video from Simon & Schuster online.)Īnother stand-out element of the novel, beyond the main character, is the setting the author deliberately sets a portion of the novel against the backdrop of the legendary hotels of Morocco, aiming to “provide the story with particular magic”.Īnd it is magical. There was no room for a seamstress like Sira in the traditional tales of Hemingway and Orwell, but it’s impossible to imagine The Time In Between without her. In her lush and sprawling novel, María Dueñas presents the era via the perspective of “an independent woman in difficult times”. ![]() The Time In Between is essential reading for those who thought that reading about the Spanish Civil War meant Hemingway and Orwell. ![]()
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