Title : The City of Wonders - Eduardo Mendoza - Book
Summary :
Barcelona, 1888: a frightened peasant arrives at the construction site of the Universal Exhibition, earning a miserable living distributing anarchist propaganda. Barcelona, 1929: a stunning machine, half flying saucer, half helicopter, takes off from a pavilion at the second Universal Exhibition. At the controls, the peasant has become one of the richest and most extravagant men in the world. In the meantime, a villainous Prometheus of modern times, he has been a hawker, a henchman, a gang leader, a great avant-garde industrialist. In the meantime, war has ravaged Europe, cinema has begun to make the crowds dream, factory chimneys have blackened the sky, workers' riots have bloodied the streets, and airplane wings have cast their shadows over the city of wonders.
At the dizzying pace of a contemporary "picaresque" novel, individual adventure is stirred by collective adventure, local history becomes universal history: the great carnival of pimps, ruffians, kings, arms traffickers, the burlesque ball where bombers and drunken generals, condemned to death and mad scientists, assassinated empresses, spies, transvestites, virgins and martyrs, myths and apparitions dance.
- EAN: 9782020102957
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