Barcelona late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A city full of mud, scams, amusement arcades, brothels and dives transforms into a beautiful and functional metropolis through two great world exhibitions of 1888 and 1929.
Bouvila Humphrey, the clever peasant, arrives in Barcelona in preparation for the first exhibition. Employed by the spread of anarchist leaflets among the workers, then enter into a of Ephraim, athlete protects him and helps him to sell suspicious pomades for hair growth and quickly leeched fortune. As a result of the many shenanigans and the murder of Humphrey Bouvila becoming one of the most influential people in Spain.
ruthless, intelligent, and Humphrey is just insensitive to women. They appear in his life three. First - Delfina, daughter disgusting guesthouse owner, will make him rich, the other - Margarita, sophisticated girl from a good home, give him children, and the third - Maria, with eyes the color of caramel, the daughter of the inventor of the airplane, it will become the love life of Humphrey. All three women will Onufremu to climb Barcelona hierarchy in a social, social, financial and political influence to achieve in the country.
Humphrey - as the true representative of the Catalan merchants - always able to feel where the wind blows, according to a well set up and invest money. Niestraszne his revolutions, upheavals or political change. Catalan is the epitome of resourcefulness, perseverance in times of shaping the identity of the region, remaining in perpetual conflict with the King of Castile. The City of Wonders
Eduardo Mendoza portrays the people of Barcelona - sometimes with irony, sometimes with tenderness, not afraid to show their funny sides and vices, recklessness, pettiness, but also the courage and vigor.
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