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          Historical Fiction Society  _{(United state, summer season 2015)}
Winner:
          Canada publication Awards  _{(Historical Fiction, 2014 e-book year)}
Novel shortlisted for:
          The Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction 2014  _{(United Kingdom)}

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Mata Hari...
     The identify conjures up pictures of espionage, sensuality, eroticism,
     lust, love and betrayal, all amidst the backdrop of the 1st global War...
     the nice War... the War to finish All Wars.

Mata Hari...
     You recognize the identify of the girl who used to be accused of being the greatest
     female undercover agent of the century.
     You be aware of the identify of the girl whose exploits have been claimed to cause
     the slaughter of 50,000 men.

Mata Hari...
     You be aware of her identify, yet you do not know her story.
     –And it's not in any respect what you think.
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Born to an prosperous Dutch family members in 1876, Margaretha Zelle is solid into poverty, deserted by means of the daddy she idolizes and watches helplessly as her mom dies of depression. An undesirable burden to her family and abused through males in authority, she flees right into a marriage with a guy so brutal their servants within the colonial East Indies take their revenge upon them in a fashion no girl may still bear.

Penniless, on my own and in defiance of conference, Margaretha reinvents herself in France as Mata Hari, a talented dancer and infamous courtesan who epitomizes the grandeur of the Belle Époque – the Golden Age earlier than the 1st international War.

Performing to packed homes throughout Europe, lover to topped heads and the richest and strongest males of the age, the general public perspectives her flamboyant existence with outrage and envy. not anyone, no longer even the jealous imitators who conspire opposed to her, sees the deep own sorrow she hides within.

When the good warfare crashes approximately her, trapping her deep inside of Germany, she escapes to her place of birth as a destitute refugee earlier than returning to Paris to rebuild her lifestyles and profession. There she meets Vadim, a Russian nobleman who grants to make all her goals come precise and for whom she enters into the murky international of espionage, a video game within which she is either participant and pawn.

As particular in heritage as Cleopatra or Helen of Troy, a century after her loss of life her identify nonetheless has the ability to enflame the imagination.

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