The dead rule

The author says about the stages of writing his famous novel "The Dead Rule": "My attention was attracted, more than the famous caves, the ancient olive trees, and the eternal blue coasts of Mallorca, by the honest people who inhabit it and the division into classes that still exists, no doubt due to the isolation of the island, and their resistance to the tendency toward equality with the Spaniards of the mainland. I saw in the life of the converted Jews of Mallorca, the so-called Chuita, ...