Eduardo Mendoza

Translated by Nicholas Caistor

A shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has disappeared in Barcelona, having assumed the form of Madonna, whose image he glimpses on a street poster.

His partner, desperate to get him back, goes about trying to find him in a more discreet guise, scrupulously writing his observations in a diary ...

No stone is left unturned, no danger too much, in the search for his old pal Gurb in the topsy-turvy world of planet Earth.

No Word From Gurb is a riotous satire highlighting the contradictions of Western society in a lively, intelligent and sweetly ironic way.

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