City of Wonders

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

About the author

Eduardo Mendoza was born in Barcelona in 1943. He studiedm Law and worked as an UN interpreter in the United States for nine years. His most acclaimed works is City of Wonders, adapted for film in 1999. He has won many awards for his fiction, most recently the Planeta Prize and the European Book Prize for An Englishman in Madrid.

Summary

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

Foreword

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

Additional text

One of this season's literary landmarks . . . an extravagant, amusing, fantastic, and moving fresco of Barcelona.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Mendoza
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2022
• EAN: 9781529410082
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1008-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Spain, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction