by Eduardo Mendoza · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408105626
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«Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936» is the historical novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Booket in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Spring 1936: English art critic Anthony Whitelands arrives by train in turbulent Madrid to authenticate a painting with possible political and economic value. The work belongs to a friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Amid espionage, conspiracies and turbulent love affairs, Whitelands accumulates pursuers on the eve of the civil war.
Novel winner of the Planeta Prize 2010, the European Book Prize 2013 and the San Clemente Prize 2012. It belongs to Booket's Gran Formato collection.
It will appeal to readers of historical fiction and political intrigue set in 20th-century Spain.
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.
