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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.
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- 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.
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For readers who love Spanish society scenes, witty talk and women's inner lives, and for anyone who has felt the pull of a distant home, or enjoys a story that mixes laughter with real feeling.
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- A widow wakes and faces her conscience
- An argument about Spanish savagery
- A morning excuse becomes an outing
- The fair, the shack and the gypsies
- The sea that is not there
- Excuses, baths and a visit at night
- A commander's theory on a bench
- Packing, a last lunch and a quarrel
Who’s who
- Asís TaboadaA widowed Marquise of Andrade from Vigo, proud of her good name, who finds it tested by a feast day in Madrid.
- Diego PachecoA handsome, idle Andalusian charmer who has courted many women and sets out to win a respectable widow.
- Gabriel Pardo de la LageAn artillery commander from Galicia, eccentric and kind, who argues against society's double standard.
- Doña Aurora Nogueira de PardiñasA Galician widow in Madrid who watches over her delicate only son and longs to see her homeland.
- Rogelio PardiñasHer twenty-year-old law student son, sheltered and joking, who wants to be taken for a man.
- Esclavitud LamasA quiet Galician servant who burns with homesickness and carries the shame of her birth.
- Don Gaspar FebreroA silver-curled retired judge in his eighties, gallant and full of memories, who is charmed by the new maid.
- Don Nicanor CandásA sharp Asturian prosecutor who pretends to be deaf and loves to needle everyone.
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Sunstroke and Homesickness
by Emilia Pardo Bazán · 1889
A widow with a spotless name wakes with a throbbing head, and the cause is a feast day, a sun and a stranger.
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A single hot feast day can undo years of careful behavior. Both are set in late nineteenth century Madrid, among Spaniards far from the green north where they were born.
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A widow wakes and faces her conscience
The book opens with Asís Taboada waking in a Madrid bedroom with a pounding head and an aching body. Her maid Angela brings linden tea and says it must be a sunstroke. Asís clings to that excuse, because she would rather blame the weather than herself.
But the first hour after waking is when conscience speaks loudest. She has been a model widow, two years in mourning, and a loving mother. She dreads confessing to Father Urdax, the sharp Jesuit who scolds her even over low-cut dresses.
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What is Sunstroke and Homesickness about?
It joins two tales set in Madrid. In the first, a Galician widow is drawn into an affair with an Andalusian charmer after a feast day. In the second, a homesick Galician servant disturbs a mother and her sheltered son.
Who is Esclavitud in Homesickness?
She is a young Galician servant from a priest's household in Vimieiro. She comes to Madrid in mourning, suffers from morriña, or homesickness, and asks to work for a family from her own land.
What does morriña mean?
Morriña is the Galician word for a deep homesickness, a sadness and listlessness that afflicts people far from their native land. In the book, characters describe it as an illness that can sometimes ease with a reminder of home.
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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