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What happens when the pull of love meets the pull of home?
In Sunstroke and Homesickness, Emilia Pardo Bazán brings together two love stories of passion and longing. This classic of Spanish literature places love beside the pull of home, inviting you to consider what draws people toward another person—and toward the place they call their own.
The two stories, Sunstroke and Homesickness, offer a way into those competing desires. Read them together for their shared concerns: romance, yearning, and attachment to home. The appeal lies in that meeting of feelings, where love is not the only thing that holds the heart.
What you’ll discover
- Two love stories Explore Sunstroke and Homesickness together through their shared themes of passion and longing.
- The pull of home Consider the place of home alongside the desire for another person.
- Passion and yearning Spend time with stories that put these powerful feelings at their center.
- A Spanish classic Discover Emilia Pardo Bazán through a work that brings literary fiction and romance together.
- Love beside belonging Reflect on the different attachments suggested by passion, homesickness, and the longing for home.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy Spanish fiction with sharp humor, lively street scenes and women who test the rules will find plenty here. It also suits anyone curious about Galicia or the ache of homesickness.
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- A guilty conscience speaks louder than a headache
- A quarrel about Spanish savagery sets everything moving
- Small yeses lead Asís to the fair
- The noisy fair turns into a rolling sea
- Pacheco keeps coming back and Pardo talks theory
- A mother watches her son from the window
- A homesick servant arrives with a letter and a secret
- Mother's fear grows as the two young people draw close
- Both stories ask what home and honor cost
- A teasing narrator, sharp humor and strong symbols
Who’s who
- Asís TaboadaA widowed marchioness from Vigo, proud of her good name, who longs to act freely and to stay respectable at once.
- Diego PachecoA witty, idle young gentleman from Cádiz who charms everyone and wants the lady he meets at a duchess's gathering.
- Gabriel PardoA Galician artillery commander and eccentric thinker who attacks social hypocrisy and carries a private sorrow about a niece.
- Doña Aurora PardiñasA widowed judge's wife who dotes on her son, loves her home region, and will do anything to protect him.
- RogelioHer twenty-year-old son, a delicate, joking law student who longs to be seen as a man.
- Esclavitud LamasA young Galician servant, ashamed of her birth and sick with homesickness, who wants only to serve people from home.
- Don Gaspar FebreroAn elegant retired judge past eighty, with a crutch and a remarkable memory for bygone years, who is charmed by the new servant.
- Don Nicanor CandásA sharp-tongued Asturian prosecutor who pretends to be deaf and loves needling his friends with the news.
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Sunstroke and Homesickness
by Emilia Pardo Bazán · 1889
A widow spends a day at a Madrid fair and comes home with a secret she cannot wash away.
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A woman wakes in a darkened Madrid bedroom with a headache like a drill, and her maid has a quick explanation: sunstroke. Asís Taboada, a widowed marchioness of thirty-two, nods at once.
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A guilty conscience speaks louder than a headache
Asís wakes with pain drilling through her temples. Her maid, nicknamed the Devil, brings linden tea and a ready explanation. It must be sunstroke, she says, because the day before was hot enough to drop birds from the sky. Asís agrees at once.
Then a second voice speaks inside her, and it will not accept the sun as the culprit. It lists the facts of her life like a lawyer. She is thirty-two, a widow, a loving mother and a careful lady, and still she has done something foolish.
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Pardo Bazán, Emilia. Sunstroke and Homesickness. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness.
Pardo Bazán, E. (2026). Sunstroke and homesickness. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness (Original work published 1889)
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. Sunstroke and Homesickness. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness.
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What is Sunstroke and Homesickness about?
It joins two short novels. Sunstroke follows a widowed marchioness whose day at a Madrid fair changes her life. Homesickness follows a mother, her delicate son and a young Galician servant who longs for home.
What does morriña mean in Homesickness?
Morriña is the Galician word for homesickness. In the story Esclavitud describes it as a bone that falls out of place and drains the spirit, making a person sad, thin and unable to eat.
Who are Asís, Pacheco and Pardo in Sunstroke?
Asís Taboada is a widowed marchioness from Vigo. Diego Pacheco is a charming, idle gentleman from Cádiz. Gabriel Pardo is her fellow Galician and friend, an artillery commander who argues about society and morality.
The author
Emilia Pardo Bazán
1851–1921 · Spanish novelist and essayist
Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Spanish novelist, short-story writer and editor. She was born in A Coruña in 1851 and died in Madrid in 1921. She wrote The House of Ulloa, published in 1886, and Mother Nature, published in 1887. She lived in Galicia and Madrid.
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