El viaje de las palabras / The Journey of Words
Novel , 2003
Seix Barral
Pages: 246
Almandoz, a young woman from Barcelona, who at the end of the 20th century is going through a personal crisis and lives in fear of a dull future, finds herself unexpectedly transported to the year 1892. Clad in a hat and bustle, she appears on the estate of the writer Anton Chekhov in Melikhovo, Russia, whose work she knows and admires. But the pleasure of interacting with the great writer in person is accompanied by many inconveniences: Lucia must justify her unusual presence within the large Chekhov family, as well as adapt to the routine of a strange century, without running water or flush toilets, and in which independent women arouse suspicion.