Complete Works of Eça de Queiroz VIII (The City and the Mountains)

On a cold, bleak winter morning in Paris, the cosmopolitan Jacinto decides to return to his native Tormes, a quiet village in the Portuguese mountains, accompanied by Zé Fernandes, the narrator and character of this story. A "fantasy novel", as Eça de Queiroz called it, The City and the Mountains portrays the contrasts between the excitement of city life and the genuine beauty of life in the countryside.