Author: Eduardo Mendoza
- Fiction
- Booket
- ISBN: 9788432217104
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Onofre Bouvila, a poor peasant, arrives in Barcelona to work in the World Exhibition of 1888. The story of Bouvila’s acquisition of wealth and social ascent, not always in an orthodox manner, runs in parallel to the development of the city of wonder until another key event, the International Exhibition of 1929. One of the best novels written about stirring, turn of the century Barcelona.