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Signed, Mata Hari a novel

In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty is death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, Scheherazade-like, to buy back her life from her interrogators. From a bleak childhood in the Netherlands, through a loveless marriage to a Dutch naval officer, Margaretha is transported to the forbidden sensual pleasures of Indonesia. In the chill of her prison cell she spins tales of rosewater baths, native lovers, and Javanese jungles, evoking the magical world that sustained her even as her family crumbled. And then, in flight from her husband, Margaretha reinvents herself: she becomes an artist's model, circus rider, and finally the temple dancer Mata Hari, dressed in veils, admired by Diaghilev, performing for the crowned heads of Europe. Through all her transformations, her life's fatal questions--was she a traitor, and if so, why?--burns ever brighter.

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  • "Mata Hari"
  • "Signed, Mata Hari"@pl
  • "Signed, Mata Hari"@it

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  • "In the cold October of 1917 Marguerite Zelle, alias Mata Hari, the infamous exotic dancer, sits in a Paris prison cell awaiting trial on charges of espionage; the penalty, death by firing squad. And as she waits, she tells stories to buy back her life from her interrogators..."
  • "In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty is death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, Scheherazade-like, to buy back her life from her interrogators. From a bleak childhood in the Netherlands, through a loveless marriage to a Dutch naval officer, Margaretha is transported to the forbidden sensual pleasures of Indonesia. In the chill of her prison cell she spins tales of rosewater baths, native lovers, and Javanese jungles, evoking the magical world that sustained her even as her family crumbled. And then, in flight from her husband, Margaretha reinvents herself: she becomes an artist's model, circus rider, and finally the temple dancer Mata Hari, dressed in veils, admired by Diaghilev, performing for the crowned heads of Europe. Through all her transformations, her life's fatal questions--was she a traitor, and if so, why?--burns ever brighter."@en
  • "A beautifully written biographical novel about one of the most notorious and fascinating women of the twentieth century."@en
  • "A tale inspired by the life of the infamous spy finds a woman awaiting execution in Paris and attempting to save herself by recounting the story of her Netherlands childhood, self-reinvention after ending a loveless marriage, and performances for the crowned heads of Europe."@en
  • "A tale inspired by the life of the infamous spy finds a woman awaiting execution in Paris and attempting to save herself by recounting the story of her Netherlands childhood, self-reinvention after ending a loveless marriage, and performances for the crowned heads of Europe."

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  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Powieść biograficzna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Translations"
  • "Modern fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Specimens"@en

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  • "Signed, Mata Hari a novel"@en
  • "Was getekend, Mata Hari"
  • "Signé Mata Hari"
  • "U potpisu Mata Hari"
  • "Yo, Mata Hari"
  • "Yo, Mata Hari"@es
  • "Signed, Mata Hari : a novel"@en
  • "Signed, Mata Hari : a novel"
  • "La donna che ingannò la morte"@it
  • "La donna che ingannò la morte"
  • "Mata Khari"
  • "Podpisano: Mata Hari"@pl
  • "Podpisano, Mata Hari"
  • "Signed, Mata Hari"@en
  • "Мата Хари"
  • "Signed, Mata Hari"