Spanish · Beginner
Read Historia de un amor turbio in Spanishwith every sentence explained
English title: Story of a Troubled Love
Horacio Quiroga · 1908
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About the book
Historia de un amor turbio by Horacio Quiroga was first published in 1908. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked beginner and filed under romance. It runs to about 21,600 words.
Two sisters in mourning walk past him on a Buenos Aires street. One of them was once the love of his life.
Luis Rohán has spent five years working a ranch in distant San Luis. Back in the city one April morning, he sees the Elizalde sisters go by, and the past comes flooding back: the family that welcomed him when he was twenty, witty Mercedes teasing him at the piano, and little Eglé, who once clung to him on a moonlit balcony and swore she would love him forever.
Years later, home from Europe, Rohán found that child grown into a beautiful young woman, and love came quickly. So did something darker: a restless, gnawing jealousy that fed on every glance. Now, curious to know what he will feel, he decides to see her again.
Story of a Troubled Love (1908), Horacio Quiroga's first novel, is a tense psychological tale of love and jealousy, told in plain, modern prose by the future master of the Latin American short story.
- Author
- Horacio Quiroga
- First published
- 1908
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Romance
- Length
- About 21,600 words
How it opens
Una mañana de abril, Luis Rohán se detuvo en Florida y Bartolomé Mitre. La noche anterior había vuelto a Buenos Aires, después de año y medio de ausencia. Sentía así mayor el disgusto del aire maloliente, de la escoba matinal sacudiendo en las narices, del vaho pesadísimo de los sótanos de confitería. El bello día hacíale echar de menos su vida de allá. La mañana era admirable, con una de esas temperaturas de otoño que, sobrado frescas para una larga estación a la sombra, piden el sol durante dos cuadras nada más.
Reading Historia de un amor turbio in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Spanish. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Spanish and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
