This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Translation copyright © 2014 by Mara Faye Lethem
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
Crown and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Originally published in Spain as La Reina Descalza by Grijalbo, an imprint of Random House Mondadori, Barcelona, in 2013. Copyright © 2013 by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra. This translation originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, London, in 2014.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Falcones de Sierra, Ildefonso, 1959–
[Reina descalza. English]
The barefoot queen : a novel / Ildefonso Falcones ; [translated by Mara Faye Lethem]. — First American edition.
pages cm
1. Spain—History—18th century—Fiction. I. Lethem, Mara, translator. II. Title.
PQ6656.A375R4713 2014
863′.64—dc23
2014017397
ISBN 978-0-8041-3948-9
eBook ISBN 978-0-8041-3949-6
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