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About the Author
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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Book Info

978-1-84659-051-1
Fiction
October 2008
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
120pp
£7.99

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Reviews
'Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain's most important writers.'
New York Times

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Excerpts
When I was born, my mother, who was too frightened of my father to allow herself any liberties, was however, like all other matrons of that time, hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with Clark Gable. At my baptism, in her ignorance she insisted I be named ‘Gonewiththewind’, a suggestion which the priest quite rightly rejected with great indignation.

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