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Autor: Murphy Yannick
Editorial: Ediciones B
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN: 9788466638326
Reseña: In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle better known as Mata Hari sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty is death by firing squad. As she waits burdened by a secret guilt Mata Hari tells stories Scheherazade-like to buy back her life from her interrogators. From a bleak childhood in the Netherlands through a loveless marriage to a Dutch naval officer Margaretha is transported to the forbidden sensual pleasures of Indonesia. In the chill of her prison cell she spins tales of rosewater baths native lovers and Javanese jungles evoking the magical world that sustained her even as her family crumbled. And then in flight from her husband Margaretha reinvents herself: she becomes an artists model circus rider and finally the temple dancer Mata Hari dressed in veils admired by Diaghilev performing for the crowned heads of Europe. Through all her transformations her lifes fatal questions --was she a traitor and if so why?-- burns ever brighter.
