Sacred hearts : a novel

Título
Sacred hearts : a novel

Sarah. Dunant

Resumen
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2009

Descripción física
415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edición
1st U.S. ed.

Nota general
"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press, an imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group, London" -- verso.
 
Includes bibliography: p. [413]-415.

Término de la materia
Nuns -- Italy -- Fiction.
 
Convents -- Italy -- Fiction.
 
Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 16th century -- Fiction.

Término geográfico
Ferrara (Italy) -- Fiction.

Género
Historical fiction.

Síntesis
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.

ISBN
9781400063826

Información de publicación
New York : Random House, 2009.


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