![]() ![]() Through all her transformations, her life's fatal questions-was she a traitor, and if so, why?-burns ever brighter. Mata Hari on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Yannick Murphy is the author of The Call Signed, Mata Hari Here They Come and The Sea of Trees, as well as two story collections and several children. 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. 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. 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. Murphy, Yannick Signed, Mata Hari ISBN 13: 9780349120218 Signed, Mata Hari Murphy, Yannick 3.41 avg rating (568 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0349120218ISBN 13: 9780349120218 Publisher: Abacus, 2008 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, Scheherazade-like, to buy back her life from her interrogators. ![]() She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting Award. ![]() ![]() 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. Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels Signed, Mata Hari Here They Come and The Sea of Trees, as well as two story collections and several children’s books. ![]()
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