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With Spain on the brink of civil war, an English art historian finds himself in a race for a lost Velazquez painting, as Madrid crawls with Soviet spies. 'A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene' Christian House, }Independent on Sunday{

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With Spain on the brink of civil war, an English art historian finds himself in a race for a lost Velazquez painting, as Madrid crawls with Soviet spies. 'A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene' Christian House, }Independent on Sunday{
Autorenporträt
Eduardo Mendoza was born in Barcelona in 1943. He studied Law and worked as an U.N. interpreter in the United States for nine years. Prior to An Englishman in Madrid, his most acclaimed work was The City of Marvels. Nick Caistor's translations include The Buenos Aires Quintet by Manuel Vázquez Montalban and works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marsé, Alan Pauls and Guillermo Orsi.