The City of Marvels
Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy
#3260 of 8,085 books · #492 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1989).
Onofre Bouvila, an ambitious young peasant, travels to Barcelona in the late nineteenth century, where he becomes a wealthy man via baldness cures, burglary, land speculation, film production, arms smuggling and international finance.
- ISBN-13
- 9780671702342
- Genre
- Topics
- Ambition and social climbingRags to richesUrban transformation of Barcelona
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1989)
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