This critical anthology on the novels and other work of Eduardo Mendoza is the very first collection of scholarly essays to be published solely on this Spanish novelist.
Barcelona in the late 1940s provides the backdrop to this novel. Prullas, a popular playwright whose day is now past, initiates a love affair with his leading lady. Winner of France's Best Foreign Book Award.
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 ...
This work examines canonical works of the Spanish novela negra genre - Eduardo Mendoza's El misterio de la cripta embrujada, El laberinto de aceitunas, and La aventura del tocador de senoras.