Maria Dueñas holds a PhD in English Philology and is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities, is the author of several academic articles, and has participated in various educational, cultural, and editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel.
The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II
Between Youth and Adulthood . . .
At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew.
Between War and Peace . . .
With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes.
Between Love and Duty . . .
As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers’ wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal.
Already a runaway bestseller across Europe, The Time In Between is one of those rare, richly textured novels that enthrall down to the last page. María Dueñas reminds us how it feels to be swept away by a masterful storyteller.
刚开始那部分让我对女主角天真无知好骗还上赶着跳火坑的行径无语了,天下狗血那么多,怎么偏往你身上泼,那一定是因为女主的性格缺陷太过明显。 读过了女主前半段生涯中有如把言情模式带入生活的失败案例后,终于可以迎来一段苦逼而平缓的叙述,故事从这里变得引人入胜起来,这...
評分美貌自然是老天给予一个女人的最大的资本,西班牙女郎似乎得到了上帝更多的眷顾,因为她们不仅仅得到了世人难以企及的外貌,并且得到了上帝更多的奖赏,上帝给了她们由外而内的一种美。她们所拥有的,不仅仅是令人们羡慕嫉妒恨,有过一次便在所不惜的绝佳外貌,还有别样的根深...
評分西班牙是君主立宪制国家,这个位于欧洲西南部的美丽国度直至1978年才修订出现行宪法。究其原因,或许不得不归咎于1936年由国民军与长枪党人联手引发的西班牙内战,这场长达3年的血腥内战是自法兰西大革命之后在西欧上演的最大规模的内战,多个国家卷入其中,不仅导致西班...
評分costura西语是缝纫的意思; El tiempo是“时间”(Nike最早系列的一款鞋子就叫Tiempo),翻译成"时间的针脚"和作者的本意一致(作者答记者问),既符合女主Sira的职业身份(裁缝)也暗示了她在历史背面作为一个隐形的人物所起的作用。 从首发式开始前拿到这本书起,我便进入阅...
評分刚开始那部分让我对女主角天真无知好骗还上赶着跳火坑的行径无语了,天下狗血那么多,怎么偏往你身上泼,那一定是因为女主的性格缺陷太过明显。 读过了女主前半段生涯中有如把言情模式带入生活的失败案例后,终于可以迎来一段苦逼而平缓的叙述,故事从这里变得引人入胜起来,这...
長達六百頁的小說,讓我每次看都有一種停不下來的衝動。書中準確的用詞,心理活動的描寫,以及偶爾篇幅略長對局勢的闡述都深深的吸引我。我特彆喜歡Candelaria,她明確的知道自己是什麼樣的人和自己想要什麼,果斷又堅決,是一位非常令人崇拜的女性。我看著sira一步步成長,最後成為一名勇敢有主見並且自信的人,非常感慨。同時我也積纍瞭很多短句和單詞,看完後很想去西班牙。在2016年結束之前,我終於讀完瞭。30 Dec. 2016 Canada
评分雖然女主的智商情商都有點捉急...還是很不錯的一本書,背景(二戰期間)、主題(間諜)和視角(dressmaker)都很有意思
评分特彆喜歡書名的翻譯: the time in between=時間的針腳 #在這密密麻麻的時間針腳裏,每個人都努力真實地活著
评分估摸著應該看不懂原版,所以選擇瞭英文譯版。600多頁的書幾乎是看得不想停下來,a real page-turner。講述瞭一個西班牙裁縫小姑娘怎麼樣因緣際會在二戰期間成為瞭同盟國的臥底。西班牙內戰時期的馬德裏、摩洛哥殖民地,二戰前夕的裏斯本,甚至是30年代前後歐洲的流行時尚都被作者描寫得活靈活現。小說雖然是虛構的,但是這個作者是那種特彆嚴謹尊重史實的類型,在虛構的主人公身邊齣現的好幾個人,像是主人公的好朋友同時是弗朗哥政府第一任外交部長的情人,還有好些政治人物都是真實存在的,大環境下的曆史事件也都是真實的。 看完之後我隻想買票殺迴西班牙再一路南下到摩洛哥的Tetouan和Tangier看看。
评分長達六百頁的小說,讓我每次看都有一種停不下來的衝動。書中準確的用詞,心理活動的描寫,以及偶爾篇幅略長對局勢的闡述都深深的吸引我。我特彆喜歡Candelaria,她明確的知道自己是什麼樣的人和自己想要什麼,果斷又堅決,是一位非常令人崇拜的女性。我看著sira一步步成長,最後成為一名勇敢有主見並且自信的人,非常感慨。同時我也積纍瞭很多短句和單詞,看完後很想去西班牙。在2016年結束之前,我終於讀完瞭。30 Dec. 2016 Canada
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