In a mining district of northern Spain, the orphan Nela, small, ragged and convinced she is worthless, is the devoted guide of Pablo, the blind son of a wealthy landowner, who loves her for her voice and her descriptions of the world. When a celebrated surgeon arrives who may be able to restore Pablo’s sight, Nela begins to dread what his eyes will see.
An idyll with a tragic edge from Spain’s great nineteenth-century novelist, translated by Clara Bell. Download the free EPUB.