by Eduardo Mendoza · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432234071
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«El rey recibe» is the novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Seix Barral in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Barcelona, 1968. Rufo Batalla, a young journalist, covers the wedding of an exiled prince and strikes up a friendship with him; the prince commissions him to chronicle his peculiar story. Rufo leaves Franco's Spain and travels to New York, where he witnesses the social changes of the seventies: racial equality, feminism and the gay movement.
El rey recibe is the first installment of the trilogy Las Tres Leyes del Movimiento, in the Biblioteca Breve collection.
For readers of literary fiction and humorous novels set in Barcelona and New York between the sixties and seventies.
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist, playwright, and essayist. His first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta, published in 1975, reflected the social changes as Spain transitioned to democracy, and was very successful. His 1986 novel, La Ciudad de los Prodigios, is widely acclaimed, and he is also known for his "mad detective" parody novels, in particular El Laberinto de las Aceitunas.
