by José María de Pereda · Espadana Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423919178
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«Sotileza» is the realist novel by José María de Pereda, published by Espasa Calpe in the Austral Collection in paperback (466 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the seafaring Santander of the 19th century, it tells the life of Sotileza, an orphan girl raised among fishermen, and her relationship with Andrés, son of a well-off family. The story portrays the world of fishing, its codes of honor and social differences, with the sea and the Cantabrian landscape as a backdrop.
Edition by Germán Gullón and number 117 of the Austral Collection (1987). Originally published in 1885, it is one of the author's most representative novels within Spanish realism.
For readers of 19th-century Spanish literature and Cantabrian regionalist narrative.
José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
