City of Wonders

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila"e;Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit"e; Jonathan FranzenStung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a l...