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Beloved

Beloved

Beloved

Beth Winegarner

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2007
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781430319153
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What is home?What is loyalty?What is family?This book will make you question them all.'Beloved' is a unique memoir of war and triumph in the fictional city of Damas.Kirin is a young girl nearly orphaned and left in the care of her older brother, Emlyn. After a charismatic, tyrannical king takes control of Damas, capitalism and slavery are forced on its people. Kirin watches as her peers are sold into forced labor. Emlyn, fearing the same fate for his sister, enrolls her in the city’s university for historians -- and begins to teach her to fight like a soldier, a path that ultimately leads them both into exile and war.As Kirin grows from a child of seven to a young woman of seventeen, her tale unfolds with shades of trauma, love, honor, and betrayal. She learns the value of family -- and just how crucial it is for historians to document the truth.

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