La Maestra [Spanish]

by Corín Tellado

Beatriz Falcó (Triz) leaves her job as a nurse and her unconditional boyfriend, Luis, to become a teacher in a small town in the mountains. She will have many battles, but the hardest will be an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8466308725
• ISBN13: 9788466308724
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Ediciones B
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An affair to remember....

This novel was originally released in Aug. 1955, by Corin Tellado, a prolific spanish author who ranks 2nd (after Miguel de Cervantes)as the most read author in the Spanish language. Beatriz, a nurse/teacher who has no family, leaves her hospital job to move to a provincial town, leaving behind her good friend - a prominent hospital doctor who secretely loves her - but she is too innocent to realize it. Once in town, she immerses herself in her new tasks with the town kids, and takes to a lonely young boy whose parents are estranged, as the marriage was forced. The boy's father, a shop owner, was forced into marrying an older woman and who he has never loved, and to whom he separated soon after the marriage was consumated (no divorce in Spain then). The idealist Beatriz, befriends the kid's father, thinks herself in love with him and he father falls in love with her. The spurned wife turns the town against her who take the kids away from her and the mayor initiate proceedings to expel her. An outburst of cholera brings the town to a halt along with her good Doctor de Lecca, who contains the outburst upon his arrival (with Beatriz) and she realizes he has always being her real love. The the "maestra" returns to the city with the good doctor and finally they get together. The novel though tame to today standards,is sweet, giving a glimpse into Spanish society of the times - an the then prevailing notion that once a woman loses her innocence she is lost and cannot expect the love of a good man. It is beautifully written and the author, without being explicit, transmits the sexual tension among the characters, while showing a portrait of the Spanish society at the time.