貧しく、病気がちで、ほとんど目が見えない。スペインが生んだ20世紀文学の天才、ベニート・ペレス=ガルドスはそんな風に晩年を生きた。それにも拘わらず、彼は友人、家族、市井の人々からの愛情に不足することはなかった。彼が文筆業を続けるために他の若い人たちの目に頼ることが必要になったとき、彼女、カルメラ・シッドが彼の傍らにいた。彼女が彼の目になる。そして彼の声になる。

Poor, sick and almost blind. This is how Benito Pérez Galdós, the Spanish genius of 20th century literature, lived his last years. In spite of everything, he did not lack in affection from his friends, family and neighbours.

Pobre, doente e quase cego. Assim viveu seus últimos dias Benito Pérez Galdós, o gênio espanhol da literatura do século XX. No entanto, não lhe faltou o carinho dos seus amigos, da família e de cidadãos.

Eyes Closed is a novel about a single place, Pueblo Chico, a small town, no different from any  other, perched on the side of a craggy mountain range that is sometimes covered in mist, sometimes in snow, in which animals are sometimes lost and peo