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BIRD WITH THE HEART OF A MOUNTAIN
By: Barbara Mariconda
Skyscape
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
ISBN: 1477817336
EAN: 9781477817339
Kindle: B00DH3MP6O
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I throw back my tumble of black hair, roll one bare shoulder forward. The stack of bangles on each wrist shimmies and slides as my hands rise like birds in flight. Drina knows the men who love to watch her dance also believe Gypsies are no better than stray dogs β but when she dances, Drina doesnβt think. She forgets who she is. She forgets what seems to be her legacy: I am nothing. I belong nowhere. The daughter of a Gypsy woman and a well-to-do Spaniard who abandoned them, Drina wants only to dance. Why then does her mother forbid it? Set during the chaos of the Spanish Civil War in the fascinating world of Gypsy campgrounds, the vineyard estate of the family she has never known and the dance halls of Seville where flamenco reigns, Drina fights to discover who she is and where she belongs. Can her passion β her duende β save her from the perils of the civil war? From a father lost, then found? And will she come to understand what it means to be a bird with the heart of a mountain?
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