by Eduardo Mendoza · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432236440
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«El rey recibe» is the contemporary fiction novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by Planeta in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In 1968, Rufo Batalla, a young journalist from Barcelona, covers the wedding of an exiled prince and ends up befriending him. He soon emigrates to New York, where he witnesses the social movements of the seventies: racial equality, feminism, the gay movement, and new cultural expressions.
First installment of the trilogy «Las tres leyes del movimiento». The work was originally published in 2018; this edition is from March 2020.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Spanish and followers of Eduardo Mendoza, with an interest in the social changes of the twentieth century.
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.
