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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.
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- 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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- 10 of 10 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Glenwood and Souris Regional Library. (Show preferred library)
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 July #1
Dukes takes readers to early-twentieth-century Albania, where 18-year-old Eleanora has been pampered by her physician father, Fran, whom she assists on house calls. Fran adores his daughter and is prepared to grant her wish to go to art school in Italy. But when Eleanora and Fran travel to a nearby town so that Fran can make the arrangements for her schooling, he's shot dead in the street by a man claiming that he's avenging a blood feud. Devastated, Eleanora returns to her stepmother, Meria, who cannot support them in their mountain village, spurring her to marry Eleanora off to her friend's brutal son, the head of a powerful clan. When he and his brothers come for Eleanora, she declares herself a "sworn virgin," a tradition that allows her to live freely as a man does, but only if she never takes a lover. Eleanora has no problem adhering to this until a stranger appears. Dukes' provocative first outing offers a fascinating look at Albanian culture and the status of women and is sure to be popular with book clubs. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
