by Eduardo Mendoza · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432221255
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«Sin noticias de Gurb» is the satirical novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Seix Barral in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Lost in Barcelona before the 1992 Olympics, the alien Gurb adopts any appearance he pleases and disappears looking like Marta Sánchez; his alien companion searches for him while Gurb's diary records his comic misadventures. The edition adds a reading guide with didactic material and a section for reading clubs.
Part of the Biblioteca furtiva collection. The novel was originally published in 1990, serialized in the newspaper El País.
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.
