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“If Zola is the Wagner of nineteenth-century realism (and George Eliot perhaps its Brahms), then Benito Pérez Galdós is its Shakespeare, or at least the Shakespeare of the late comedies and romances… . His Madrid is as full of mystery as Balzac’s Paris.“—Frederic Jameson

“This wonderful novel by Tristana author Perez Galdos peers into 1880s Madrid through the prism of the middle-class Villaamils family … a tragicomic triumph.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Benito Perez Gald s (1843-1920) is considered the greatest Spanish writer after Cervantes. In a career that spanned more than forty years, Gald s wrote nearly eighty novels and some twenty plays. Tristana, also available as an NYRB Classic, and other books of his were adapted for the screen by the great surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel.

Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, including Javier Marias, Jose Saramago, E a de Queir s, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Cesar Vallejo. Her translations have won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among others. In 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature and, in 2018, the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique from the Portuguese government and a Lifetime Award for Excellence in Translation from the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, New York.

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