

This was a pleasant, sometimes funny but rather slow book that I was all set to give a "so-so" until the final 50 pages or so, when things became unhinged. The blurb compares Perez Galdos to a Spanish Dickens, which makes sense given the focus on class. It felt more modern than Dickens, though whether that's the writing itself or the translation I can't say. Let's just say that...