The barefoot queen

By Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra

Subjects: Romanies, History, Insurgency, Fiction, Homeless women, Fiction, historical, general, Women slaves, Spain, fiction

Description: Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-century Madrid.