An Englishman in Madrid

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Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623657199
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Book Synopsis An Englishman in Madrid by : Eduardo Mendoza

Download or read book An Englishman in Madrid written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands--ever the fool for a pretty face--vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.

The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt

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Publisher : Telegram Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator, Gonewiththewind, delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school." "Helped only by his ageing prostitute sister and the voluptuous nymphomaniac, Mercedes, the narrator's investigations take him deeper into a mystery involving murdered sailors, suicidal daughters, a web of organised crime and a secret, underground crypt." "Both gripping and surprising. The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt is a hilarious detective story."--BOOK JACKET.

City of Marvels

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ISBN 13 : 9780002710374
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book City of Marvels written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Year of the Flood

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Flood written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nun falls in love with a wealthy landowner in this tale set in Spain. The romance begins when Sister Consuela is appointed mother superior of a convent and has to raise funds for a medical clinic. By the author of The Truth About the Savolta Case.

City of Wonders

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Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781529410082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book City of Wonders written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year is 1888, and the Catalan capital is about to emerge from provincial obscurity to take its place amongst the great cities of the world, thanks to the upcoming Universal Exhibition. Thanks to a tip-off from his landlord's daughter, Onofre gets his big break distributing anarchist leaflets to workers preparing for the World Fair. From these humble beginnings, he branches out as a hair-tonic salesman, a burglar, a filmmaker, an arms smuggler and a political dealmaker, in a multifaceted career that brings him wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams. But, just as Barcelona's rise makes it a haven for gangsters, crooks and spivs, vice begins to fester in Onofre's heart. And the climax to his remarkable story will come just as a second World Fair in 1929 marks the city's apotheosis. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

The Truth about the Savolta Case

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about the Savolta Case written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel "evokes the revolutionary atmosphere of Barcelona in the shadows of World War I."

No Word from Gurb

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Publisher : Telegram Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book No Word from Gurb written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious cult classic featuring an extraterrestial Don Quixote bumbling through modern-day Barcelona.

Parody in the Novels of Eduardo Mendoza

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Parody in the Novels of Eduardo Mendoza by : David John Knutson

Download or read book Parody in the Novels of Eduardo Mendoza written by David John Knutson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Thing That Can Happen To A Croissant

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782114238
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Best Thing That Can Happen To A Croissant by : Pablo Tusset

Download or read book The Best Thing That Can Happen To A Croissant written by Pablo Tusset and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-riding, ball-busting comedy of bad manners, this is one of the most surprising and entertaining literary debuts of recent years. Pablo Baloo Miralles, a fat, useless and flatulent thirty-year-old, is the black sheep of his obscenely wealthy family. While he dedicates his days to online philosophy chatrooms and his nights to whatever pleasures he can find, his brother, 'The First,' is president of his booming family business. But, when 'The First' suddenly disappears, Pablo finds himself being sucked into a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure - an adventure in which he must use all of his well-honed survival instincts to come out alive.

Off Side

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612191169
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Off Side by : Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Download or read book Off Side written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it. Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. “The center forward will be killed at dusk,” reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho. With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia? Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain’s most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses—and limits—of power.

Open Veins of Latin America

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0853459916
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Book Synopsis Open Veins of Latin America by : Eduardo Galeano

Download or read book Open Veins of Latin America written by Eduardo Galeano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

The Year 200

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Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060175
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Year 200 written by Agustín de Rojas and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’s The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power. Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos.” When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas’s magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ really mean?”

The Spanish Sleuth

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Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838632789
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spanish Sleuth by : Patricia Hart

Download or read book The Spanish Sleuth written by Patricia Hart and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Spanish detective fiction from Alarcon's "El clavo," published twelve years after Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," up to the present. The presentation of the highly entertaining sleuth characters is based on a detailed examination of the works and, in many cases, personal interviews with the writers.

The Buenos Aires Quintet

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Publisher : Melville International Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781612190341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Buenos Aires Quintet written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and published by Melville International Crime. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.

Thinking Barcelona

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387923
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Thinking Barcelona by : Edgar Illas

Download or read book Thinking Barcelona written by Edgar Illas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ideological work that redefined Barcelona in the 1980s and adapted it to a new economy of tourism, culture and services. It examines political speeches/scripts of the 1992 Olympic Games ceremonies; architect Oriol Bohigas's urban renewal; and fictions by Quim Monzó, Francisco Casavella, Eduardo Mendoza and Sergi Pàmies.

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156833236X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Book Synopsis Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot by : Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

Download or read book Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot written by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Latin American writers quote, dissect and review this character in a cultural critique that combines analysis with humor and a relentless self-criticism.

In the Night of Time

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547548052
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Night of Time by : Antonio Muñoz Molina

Download or read book In the Night of Time written by Antonio Muñoz Molina and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A “hypnotic” novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man’s quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books). October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, Ignacio reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his transformation from a bricklayer’s son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever altered his life. Winner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, In the Night of Time is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists. “Labyrinthine and spellbinding . . . One of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to be raised in fiction.” —The Washington Post, “The Top 50 Fiction Books for 2014” “An astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory . . . Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty.” —The Economist “Epic . . . Intoxicating prose.” —Entertainment Weekly “A War and Peace for the Spanish Civil War.” —Publishers Weekly