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De Neergang Van Madrid (2010)

by Eduardo Mendoza(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

9460233961 (ISBN13: 9789460233968)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

J.M. Meulenhoff

review 1: Extraordinary weaving of a story that has as it's historical background , the forces and political groups who detonated the explosive Spanish Civil warThe flawed central character, The Englishman in Madrid , ties together all the threads of the story it provides an enthralling insight into the political intrigues deceptions, and real life characters of the Madrid of 1936 It also provides an absorbing and thrilling fictional story that I found at times a little too complex in the fast shifting settings but never loses interest
review 2: An Englishman in Madrid (its English title) is a fascinating book, both comic and informative. It is interesting that Mendoza chose an Englishman as the blundering art expert who finds himself involved with many of the main pla... moreyers in the Spanish Civil War. It is early 1936, just before war breaks out and some of the detail is fascinating but still doesn't make it very clear about the different opinions held by the main protagonists. Still this is not a history book and as the Englishman stumbles from intrigue to intrigue you start to get a feel for how complicated life was in Spain in the run up to war. Well worth reading for anyone interested in Spain. less

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