What begins as a professional assignment quickly devolves into a farcical nightmare: An Englishman in Madrid - Eduardo Mendoza - Amazon.com
Art, Espionage, and Farce: Eduardo Mendoza’s An Englishman in Madrid An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza.epub
The story follows , a Cambridge-educated English art historian who arrives in Madrid in the spring of 1936, just months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Whitelands has been invited by the Duke of La Igualada to value a private art collection that the aristocrat hopes to sell to fund a potential exile. What begins as a professional assignment quickly devolves