![]() ![]() Poetic yet forceful, this skillful blend of hope, tragedy, and a certain mysteriousness will entice you to stay in Mata Hari’s world to discover her fate and, most of all, if her sacrifices were worth it in the end. Even from the misery of her cold, damp prison cell, we’re allowed to feel the heat of her life in Indonesia, the thankfulness for her children, the sting of rejection and her appetite for adoration. Why you should read this book: Adrift in sensual memories, Mata Hari pulls her reader into her spirited life, letting them feel her yearnings to be more than just a doormat to her abusive and crushing force of a husband: to be a woman worthy of telling the story, ‘I walked across the sea.’ Of course, any freedoms she earns for herself will come at a price, and Mata Hari walks a thin line deciding what she can pay. While waiting for her trial, her life story pours out like an offering: her childhood, her marriage to an impossible man, tragedies, and a re-invention of herself into something more sensual and free – the self that will lead to her imprisonment and possible punishment… ![]() Synopsis: Mata Hari sits in her Paris jail cell, accused of spying for Germany during World War I. ![]() Reason for Reading: I like books that are set in unusual locations, and Indonesia qualified. ![]()
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