Mariana is the 1997 second novel of Katherine Vaz, originally written in English, published by Flamingo/HarperCollin.

The novel was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998.

[1] The novel has been translated into more than six languages including Portuguese, Italian, and Greek.

[2][3][full citation needed] The plot retells the seventeenth-century romance between Mariana Alcoforado, a nun at the Convent of Beja, and an officer in the French army.

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