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The book of Emma Reyes : a memoir in correspondence

Reyes, Emma, 1919-20032017
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Comprised of letters written over the course of 30 years, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, and sewed garments and decorative cloths for church. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Main title:
The book of Emma Reyes : a memoir in correspondence / Emma Reyes ; translated with an introduction by Daniel Alarcón.
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.
Collation:
xii, 177 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781474606592 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
709.2B REY REYB REY
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
4196991
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