Jaime Febrer, last heir of a once-great Majorcan house, wakes each morning in a crumbling palace kept up only by his old servant Antonia. Ruin pushes him toward a marriage his ancestors would have scorned, and later to a lonely tower on Ibiza, where a peasant girl is courted by thirty suitors and the island’s old codes prove stronger than he is.
A strong novel of tradition and class on the Balearic islands by the Spanish author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Download the free EPUB.