| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Modern day human traffickers and art thieves extort a wealthy Laguna Beach, California art collector, Paloma Zubiondo, by offering to release a young Ecuadorian sex-slave in exchange for one of Paloma's treasured 17th century Spanish Colonial paintings, purportedly a stolen painting of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. An epic tale of interwoven narratives that connects art theft and sex trafficking to the palpable triumphs and pathos of three historical indigo maidens: artist, Isabel Santiago from 1699 Ecuador; printing heiress, Maria de Rivera Calderon y Benavides from 1754 Mexico City; and social activist sentenced to San Quentin prison, Modesta vila from 1889 San Juan Capistrano. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Chapter One: March 19, 2008 Laguna Beach, California""; ""Chapter Two: 1699 Quito, Ecuador""; ""Chapter Three: March 22, 2008 Laguna Beach, California""; ""Chapter Four: March 22, 2008 Los Angeles, California""; ""Chapter Five: 1754 Mexico City, Mexico""; ""Chapter Six: March 27, 2008 Los Angeles, California""; ""Chapter Seven: 1889 San Juan Capistrano, California""; ""Chapter Eight: March 28, 2008 Laguna Beach, California""; ""Chapter Nine: March 29, 2008 Los Angeles, California""; ""Chapter Ten: April 12, 2008 Laguna Beach, California""; ""Afterword"" |
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""About This Guide""""Questions for Discussion""; ""Bibliography""; ""About the Typeface"" |
| Subject |
Art thefts -- Latin America -- Fiction.
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Art thieves -- Fiction.
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Human trafficking -- Fiction.
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- California, Southern -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Contemporary Women.
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FICTION -- General.
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Art -- Collectors and collecting.
(OCoLC)fst00815195
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Art thefts. (OCoLC)fst00815827
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Art thieves. (OCoLC)fst00815841
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Human trafficking. (OCoLC)fst01739818
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California, Southern. (OCoLC)fst01692638
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Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Velástegui, Cecilia. Gathering the indigo maidens. Monarch Beach, Calif. : Libros Pub., 2011 (DLC) 2011932906 (OCoLC)746834988 |
| ISBN |
9780983745839 (electronic bk.) |
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0983745838 (electronic bk.) |
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9780983745846 (electronic bk.) |
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0983745846 (electronic bk.) |
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