Woman in Battle Dress
Copyright © 2001, 2015 by The Estate of Antonio Benítez-Rojo
Translation copyright © 2015 by Jessica Ernst Powell
All Rights Reserved
First published as Mujer en traje de batalla by Alfaguara in 2001
Cover art: The Hour Between Wolf and Dog (detail), oil painting by Marc Chagall, 1943
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Benítez Rojo, Antonio, 1931-2005.
[Mujer en traje de batalla. English]
Woman in battle dress / Antonio Benítez Rojo ; translated by Jessica Ernst Powell.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-87286-676-8 (alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-87286-685-0 (ebook)
1. Faber, Henriette, 1791-1856—Fiction. 2. Women physicians—Fiction. I. Powell, Jessica Ernst. II. Title.
PQ7390.B42M8513 2015
863'.64—dc23
2015013717
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