by Eduardo Mendoza · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432217104
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«La ciudad de los prodigios» is the novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Booket in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist is Onofre Bouvila, a peasant who arrives in Barcelona in 1887 and ends up, through unorthodox methods, becoming one of the richest and most influential men in the country. The action takes place between the universal expositions of 1888 and 1929 and portrays a city in full transformation, between picaresque and satire.
This Booket edition, published in 2003, is part of the Biblioteca Eduardo Mendoza collection, where it occupies volume 1. The work, originally published in 1986, received the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and historical fiction, with Barcelona at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th as the setting.
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist, playwright, and essayist. His first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta, published in 1975, reflected the social changes as Spain transitioned to democracy, and was very successful. His 1986 novel, La Ciudad de los Prodigios, is widely acclaimed, and he is also known for his "mad detective" parody novels, in particular El Laberinto de las Aceitunas.
