"The Awakening of Miss Prim" by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera was written in Spanish and this is the translation. It really is a fantasy. Miss Prim takes a job cataloging books in the library of a very unusual man. The man is homeschooling a group of children. Two of the children are his wards.
It seems the man, who is called, "the man in the winged-chair," is multi-lingual and an expert on classics. Money is no object. He had a religious conversion but it is barely alluded to except to say that the village and its personality are the results of "the man in the winged-chair's" new ideas.The village is inhabited by intellectuals who are free thinkers. Everyone is kind and have left busy lives to live the simple life in this idyllic village.
Miss Prim and "the man in the winged chair" interact intellectually and emotionally. Miss Prim who was rather an uptight and opinionated feminist, has her ideas rocked. She turns around but she doesn't know whether that's good.
It's a book to reflect upon.
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