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Orphans of the carnival

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A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden. Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico.

She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her unusual looks.

Yet few can see past her freakish appearance to the ambitious woman within. Orphans of the Carnival sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to extremes.

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Canongate Books
1782116567 / 9781782116561
Paperback / softback
823.92
04/05/2017
United Kingdom
English
Historic novels
380 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Published in Scotland. Originally published: 2016.