{"product_id":"marianela","title":"Marianela","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the person who loves you most sees a beauty you cannot believe you possess?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the mines and green hills of northern Spain, Marianela guides Pablo Penáguilas through a world he cannot see. She is a poor orphan who believes she is too plain to be loved. He is gentle, educated, and devoted to her. From her voice and companionship, he imagines a beauty that she cannot recognize in herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Benito Pérez Galdós's short novel, love meets the promise of science when eye surgeon Teodoro Golfín arrives. Pablo's father hopes his son will gain sight and a settled place in society. His cousin Florentina is kind, beautiful, and the family's hoped-for bride. For Nela, these hopes sharpen a painful question: what makes someone worthy of love?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA bond beyond appearances\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Nela and Pablo's companionship, where affection rests on voice, trust, and an imagined face.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGreen hills and open pits\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter a landscape where natural beauty stands beside the scars of mining.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe promise of sight\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a plain-speaking surgeon whose faith in knowledge unsettles a small world's familiar balance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKindness across class lines\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider how poverty and comfortable expectations shape what people believe others deserve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTenderness with a sharp edge\u003c\/strong\u003e – Find feeling, gentle humor, and searching questions about the ways people fail to see.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love short, emotional nineteenth-century fiction about class, kindness, and how we see one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and walk beside Nela into the hills.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534627176796,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/03905_en_ebook-front_c28.jpg?v=1792174976","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/hr\/products\/marianela","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}