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The sworn virgin : a novel / Kristopher Dukes.
When Eleanora's father is shot dead in the streets of Albania in 1910, she must abandon her dreams and struggle to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath to remain a virgin for the rest of her lifea tradition that gives her the right to live as a man: she is now head of her household and can work for a living as well as carry a gun. When an injured stranger stumbles into her life, Eleanora nurses him back to health, saving his lifeyet risking her own.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062660749
- ISBN: 0062660748
- Physical Description: 328, 12 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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| General Note: | Includes P.S. insights, interviews, & more... |
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| Subject: | Forced marriage > Fiction. Sex role > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Albania > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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