The Swan of Vilamorta
The Swan of Vilamorta by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) tells the story of young poet and lawyer named Segundo García, who lives in a small fictional Galician city named Vilamorta (Dead Town). Vilamorta (Dead Town) is a small Galician city modeled principally on Carballino, near which Pardo Bazán had spent the happy days of her early married life …
