by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Tebas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472730694
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El niño de la bola is a novel by the Spanish writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published in 1880. The story takes place in 19th century Andalusia and tells the tragic love story between Manuel, a young sacristan, and Soledad, a beautiful married woman. The novel explores themes such as forbidden love, passion, jealousy and destiny, all framed in an oppressive social and religious context. With a rich and evocative prose, Alarcón creates complex characters and dramatic situations that keep the reader captivated until the end.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
