Vicent places Piquer’s life against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism . Despite being later associated with the regime's preferred "folkloric" style, the novel argues she was a professional rebel who often defied censorship and administrative norms.
The novel begins with a young Piquer in 1920s New York. Having arrived as a teenager who spoke only Valencian and knew nothing of the world beyond her family’s farm, she remarkably became a Broadway star during the Prohibition era . Retrato De Una Mujer Moderna Manuel Vicent rar
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