Arroz y tartana
By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Cover: Anochecer en la escollera III (Evening at the Breakwater III) by Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench (1849–1916) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1916)
Doña Manuela, a Valencian widow, keeps up appearances for her spendthrift family on a failing business and a growing debt. Blasco Ibáñez's early novel is a vivid study of bourgeois pride and ruin in the city of the 1880s. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.