Miaow - Benito Perez Galdos

A Dickensian Tale Of Ambition, Family, And Financial Ruin By The Most Important Spanish Novelist After Cervantes, This Tragicomic Novel About A Patriarch Struggling To Keep His Ungrateful Family From Ruin Is At Turns Scathing And Hilarious. Ramoacute;n Villaamil Has Been A Loyal Civil Servant His Whole Life, But A Change In Government Leaves Him Out Of A Job And Still Two Months Short Of Qualifying For His Pension. Initially Optimistic That Hersquo;ll Be Able To Find Work And Pull His Family Out Of Their Financial Straits, He Spends His Days Visiting The Administration, Pestering His Ex-colleagues To Put In A Good Word For Him, And Begging His Friends In High Places For Money.