01448cam a2200397 i 4500 409577024 TxAuBib 20200108120000.0 081018t20092008||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780060738884 006073888X (OCoLC)262886582 TxAuBib rda Peebles, Frances de Pontes,. The seamstress [PBK] : a novel / Frances de Pontes Peebles. First Harper Perennial edition. New York : Harper Perennial, 2009. ℗2008. 646 pages : map ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In 1930's Brazil, a vigilante gang invades the home of two seamstresses, kidnapping one of them. 20200108. Winner of the "Elle's Lettres" Fiction Grand Prix. Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for Fiction. Women dressmakers Fiction. Vigilantes Brazil Fiction. Kidnapping victims fiction. Pernambuco (Brazil) Politics and government 20th century Fiction. Brazil, Northeast History Fiction. Historical fiction. Political fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Fiction.