Publication

2000 - Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing532407
  • Goodreads884964

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3551.L287 T74 2000

Description

"When Estela moves to Mexico City with her young son in the late 1880s, she wants only to escape the scandals of her town and to be near her lover, a married doctor. By luck or fate, she meets an influential and mysterious woman known as La Senorita, who sees in Estela the perfect combination of naivete and intelligence, individual will and compliance, to suit her purposes. And so Estela finds herself swept into a world of politics and entangled in secret relationships. What starts as lessons to educate poor children grows into a school for prostitutes, and that soon leads to a controversial all-women orchestra, a radical underground newspaper, and an increasingly dangerous movement for social change that foreshadows the Mexican Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Treasures in heaven: a novelChronicle Books2000-01-01

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