La gaviota

A German doctor recovering in an Andalusian fishing village meets Marisalada, a fisherman's wild daughter nicknamed the Seagull for her extraordinary voice, and marries her. Her singing carries them to the stages of Seville and Madrid, in a novel that helped found Spanish realism with its pictures of country customs. 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 Opus 5.5.