Name: The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
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Author: Eduardo Mendoza
ISBN: 9781846590511

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Eduardo Mendoza

Translated by

Nick Caistor

Publisher

Telegram Books

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

1846590515

ISBN13

9781846590511

Synopsis "The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt"

"Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain's most important writers."--The New York Times Book Review"Wonderfully inventive and hilarious."--GuardianReleased from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school, aided only by his prostitute sister Mercedes.Eduardo Mendoza was born in 1943 in Barcelona. He spent some years in New York, where he worked at the United Nations as an interpreter. His other novels include No Word From Gurb, published by Telegram in 2007.

Eduardo Mendoza

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He has published the novels The Truth About the Savolta Case (1975), which won the Critics' Award; The Mystery of the Haunted Crypt (1979); The Labyrinth of the Olives (1982); The City of Marvels (1986), City of Barcelona Award; The Unheard Island (1989); No News from Gurb (1991, 2011); The Year of the Flood (1992); A Light Comedy (1996), for which he won in Paris, in 1998, the Award for Best Foreign Book; The Adventure of the Ladies' Dresser (2001), Award for the "Book of the Year" by the Madrid Booksellers Guild; The Last Journey of Horacio Dos (2002); Mauricio or the Primary Elections (2006), José Manuel Lara Foundation Novel Award; The Amazing Journey of Pomponio Flato (2008), Terenci Moix Award and Silver Feather of the Bilbao Book Fair; and the book of stories Three Lives of Saints (2009), always at Seix Barral, and Catfight. Madrid 1936, a novel awarded with the Planeta Prize 2010.

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