A wonderful novel by Eduardo Mendoza, Riña de Gatos covers the stages prior to the Spanish civil war by presenting the case of a british art expert who comes to Spain to evaluate a painting. His adventures in Madrid are not only funnny but dangerous and the novel allows a foreigner to understand the situation in Madrid during those times. Characters like the founder of Falange and Franco as well as spies, diplomats and aristochrats make this novel a very entertaining way of learning the history of Spain in the 1930′s.
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