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008			080221s2007 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2006102966
020			_a9780316112642
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dBTCTA _dBAKER _dC#P _dYDXCP _dDLC
082	0	0	_aFIC MUR
100	1		_aMurphy, Yannick
245	1	0	_aSigned, Mata Hari : _ba novel _c/ Yannick Murphy
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Little, Brown _c, 2007.
300			_a278 p. _c; 22 cm.
520	3		_a"In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial. She is accused of spying for Germany during World War I, and her penalty, if convicted, will be death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, like Scheherazade, to buy back her life from her interrogators." "From a bleak childhood on the shifting, sandy shores of the North Sea, through a loveless marriage to a Dutch naval officer, Margaretha is transported to the forbidden sensual pleasure of the southern oceans. In the chill of her prison cell she spins tales of rosewater baths and native lovers, goddesses and sirens and Javanese jungles hung with frangipani, 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, a circus rider, and finally the temple dancer Mata Hari, dressed in veils and hung with bells, admired by Diaghilev, performing for the crowned heads of Europe. Of all the stories she tells, those about her beloved daughter, Non, are what most sustain her." "Yannick Murphy's doomed Mata Hari, clever, cultural, and an incurable romantic, is both a real woman and a palimpsest on which each may write his dream. Through her many transformations, her life's fatal question - was she a traitor, and if so, why? - burns ever brighter."--BOOK JACKET.
600	0	0	_aMata Hari, 1876-1917 _x-Fiction
650			_aWorld war _x-1914-1918 _x-Secret service _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen spies _v--Fiction
655		7	_aBiographical fiction
655		7	_aSpy stories
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