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Distant Music

A Novel

by Lee Langley · 2001 edition

A love story spanning six centuries, opening in 1429 on a Madeira consumed by a fire that has blazed for seven years, as a peasant girl and a Jewish boy off a Portuguese ship meet — their thwarted love recurring across generations.

historical fiction15th centuryPortuguese Jewish historylove story
Author
Lee Langley
Edition year
2001
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Language
English
ISBN-13
9781571310408
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