Author: Manuel Zeno Gandía
- Fiction
- Ediciones Huracan
- ISBN: 9780929157726
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

This bitter melodrama tells a story about plantation workers’ struggle for survival in Puerto Rico in the late 19th century. The beautiful island countryside, contrasted with the starved and diseased human beings who live there, makes this "naturalista" work a classic in Puerto Rican literature.