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    <body><![CDATA[This is a MUST read!!! This book is truly an unbelievable tale of two Brazilian sisters and the struggle for women to maintain a sense of self despite drought, revolution, economic hardship, and separation from loved ones in the 1930s. The author wove a tremendous amount of what Brazil was really li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31898286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really did enjoy this book...wasn't convinced when I started it, though once I got ging...it was an engaging, enthroalling book 2 sisters in Brazil in the 30s. Definitely a page turner and one I read late into the night. I wasn't sure about the ending, but the more I thought about it...decided it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30186165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fabulous, it had everything- dynamic characters, interesting setting, wonderful descriptions, terrific plot, compelling themes, and symbolism throughout.<br/><br/>Set in late 1920's to mid 1930's in Brazil during the Green Party revolution, two sisters', both talented seamstresses fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37646990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really cannot rave enough about this book.   I loved it.  LOVED it.  It reminded me a bit of One Hundred Years of Solitude, except that I read that book so long ago that you should cut me some slack if the two aren't similar at all.  Which, now that I think of it, they really aren't, because The S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31104213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a bit of an odd duck for me. I was truly impressed by the knowledge of the history and culture of 1920's/1930's era Brazil that the author presented, but I found it difficult to really connect with the characters. I wasn't especially fond of Emilia or Luzia and I think part of that was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78329221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this novel was great! I really enjoyed reading about sensible Emilia and the more high strung Luzia. Readers meet the sisters while they are still young and impressionable and being raised by their aunt in 1930s Brazil. Emilia has her head in the clouds and longs for love and a gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74213371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Seamstress is a good read, and truly an epic in every sense.  The book is set in North Eastern Brazil, spanning from 1928 to 1935.  The novel tells the story of the Dos Santos sisters, Emilia and Luzia; young women who have been raised in an isolated village located in the interior.  The sisters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59534169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother-in-law passed this on to get my opinion. She'd read it in a book group and the group, as a whole, loved it, but my mother-in-law hadn't been able to engage with the novel. I would like to have sat in the group discussion to hear the comments of why they loved the book because I agree with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75285646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to read this book slowly to languish in it's beautifully written prose, and although I finally had to finish it, it was well worth it. The English is sprinkled with Portuguese, and the words become familiar and natural the more you read. The story is so authentic and so engrossing that I not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43873127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is lovely!  It's one of those books where I read the last page, and without hesitation, immediately went back to the first page and began rereading.  The author truly defines writing as a craft, where each word and each sentence is placed with great care, and the layers of the plot weave i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51911846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book drew me in from the first paragraph and I was eager to keep reading. The main part of the book is set in Brazil during the 1930's and is about two sisters from very humble beginning who are trained to be seamstresses by their aunt. A small defiant by the one sister, Luzia, changes all thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74338133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. It is one of those somewhat ponderous, 'quiet' types of books, but once it starts moving it is very well executed. The divergence in the life of its two Brazilian sisters could not be more pronounced. One, marrying into a life of wealth, finds the world of comfort she alw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63369259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based in Brazil, during political unrest, two sisters, Luzia and Emilia, take different paths in life, but remain connected and close even though they live their adult lives physically apart. The sisters are taught to sew at an early age by a loving Aunt Sophia. As talented seamstresses, the author ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68196988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really was an unexpected pleasure.   When I started reading, my mental picture of Brazil could not have been more different than what I found in this amazing story.  Descriptions of the northern countryside, a hot, dry scrub land, contrast wonderfully with the lush humidity of the regional capi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66434326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started out great and really had me intrigued.  But it started dragging on and on about halfway through.  I really got sick of all the gory details of the congaceiros' killings.  The politics were a bit uninteresting for me.  Maybe if I knew more about Brazil.  I usually love historical no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75095150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely a 5-star book! This was a book of fictions that had the feel of real life. This book is the best of what can be done with the genre historical fiction. You take the facts and weave them into a story that makes them memorable and moving - a truly wonderful story! I loved every bit of this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71991348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just barely getting into this book and wish I could really delve into it based on Santica's recommendation.  The only thing holding me back is my exhaustion and the fact that I can only manage to read a few pages every night before my eyes go blurry.  I'll report back with a review when I'm done - w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71727574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extraordinarily vivid.  I feel as though I've been away in Brazil for the past week!<br/>No glowing prose, no melodrama, no big statements to make.  Just the grand and beautiful telling of a story for its own sake.  Emilia and Luzia are raised by their Aunt Sofia in rural northeastern Brazil in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35227995">more...</a>]]></body>
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