{"product_id":"fortunata-and-jacinta","title":"Fortunata e Giacinta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo women love the same spoiled man, but Madrid gives them very different places in his world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuanito Santa Cruz grows up surrounded by the comfort of a rich merchant family. He marries his gentle cousin Jacinta, who loves him and longs for a child. But Fortunata, a proud young woman from Madrid’s working poor, loves him too. As their lives cross, marriage, jealousy and class shape what each woman can hope for—and what she must face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdós builds a city around this intimate conflict. Shopkeepers, priests, pawnbrokers and café gossips crowd the streets and households of nineteenth-century Madrid. Among them is Maxi Rubín, a frail dreamer who adores Fortunata and hopes love can reform her. A close, often funny narrator keeps personal desires and social pressures in the same frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo women beyond rivalry\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Fortunata’s fierce pride and Jacinta’s gentleness, each shaped by a different place in society.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMadrid in full voice\u003c\/strong\u003e – Step among street sellers, family friends and café gossips who fill the city with talk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComfort and its costs\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter the Santa Cruz household, where wealth and fierce family loyalty surround a spoiled son.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe longing for motherhood\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Jacinta’s wish for a child and see how deeply it shapes her world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLove against social boundaries\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore how desire and class press upon people who want love, dignity and belonging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love big realist novels, crowded casts and a whole city brought close through individual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and enter the Santa Cruz household, where comfort shelters a young man from hard choices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534587330908,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/04357_en_ebook-front_c28.jpg?v=1792174925","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/it\/products\/fortunata-e-giacinta","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}