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FICTION
APRIL 2007
13X20 CM
PAPERBACK
136PP £7.99
ISBN: 1846590167

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Eduardo Mendoza is widely considered to be one of the most important contemporary Spanish novelists. He has won many prizes internationally.
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07.30 Decide to take on appearance of individual human being. Consult Catalogue, and choose his Lordship the Duke of Olivares.

07.45 As I leave the ship via the hatch (now a double door of great structural simplicity but extremely complex handling) choose to materialise in a spot where the concentration of individuals is at its densest. Objective: not to attract attention.

08.00 Materialise at the location known as the Diagonal-Paseo de Gracia crossroads. Knocked down by the No.17 bus. Have to recover my head, which has rolled off as a result of collision. Difficult operation due to large number of vehicles.

08.01 Knocked down by an Opel Corsa.

08.02 Knocked down by a delivery van.

08.03 Knocked down by a taxi.

08.04 Recover my head and wash it in a public fountain situated a few metres from collision. Take opportunity to analyse the composition of local water: hydrogen, oxygen, and faecal matter.


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'Like a mad cross between Don Quixote and The Screwtape Letters, this is wonderfully inventive and hilarious.' The Times

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