La Isla Inaudita -

Meaning is found in the people he meets by chance rather than those he plans to see.

Mendoza’s prose in this novel is described as "agridulce" (bittersweet)—balancing humor with a poetic irony. La Isla Inaudita

(1989), written by Eduardo Mendoza, is a novel that drifts away from the author's typical hard-boiled parodies set in Barcelona, offering instead a "sentimental journey" through a Venice that is as everyday as it is surreal. Meaning is found in the people he meets