Eduardo Mendoza

• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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Onofre Bouvila, an ambitious young peasant, travels to Barcelona in the late nineteenth century, where he becomes a wealthy man via baldness cures, burglary, land speculation, film production, arms smuggling and international finance...

• Oct-1992
• / General Fiction
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The nightly ambiance of Barcelona in the shadow of World War I comes to life through the complex joys and sorrows of characters such as an idealistic journalist, a French adventurer, a gypsy, a misogynistic bodyguard, and a visionary beggar...

• Sep-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1996
• / Literary
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• May-2003
• / General Fiction
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In the late 1940s the Civil War is over, and Franco is still very much in charge. Prullas, a once-popular playwright, pursues a crowded life in the stifling city. His producer wants him to persuade their rich patron Vallsigorri that they cannot use t...

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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“Literary Prozac.” -- Cosmopolitan

“Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain’s most important writers.” -- The New York Times Book Review

“An accomplished literary novelist who knows how to entertain.” -- Kirkus Revie...

• Feb-2009
• / Mystery
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“Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain’s most important writers.” -- The New York Times Book Review

“Wonderfully inventive and hilarious.” -- Guardian

Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-wi...

• Mar-2010
• / Literary
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Our hero, Gonewiththewind, has once again been released by the police from a lunatic asylum in Barcelona. This time his mission is to recover a briefcase filled with money lost under very peculiar circumstances.

Mysteries and mishaps follow ...

• Jul-2015
• / Literary
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Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing t...

• May-2019
• / Science Fiction
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Eksterterano, kapabla alpreni iun ajn aspekton, alvenas al la anta_-olimpika Barcelono, kie li perdis sian voja_kunulon Gurb. Per lia taglibro ni ekkonas la nekredeble amuzajn aventurojn kiujn eksterterano travivas en Barcelono, dum li fervore ser_as...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila"Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition i...