Tired of the monotonous company of his crewmate and boss, the fearless Gurb soon transforms into a woman, is picked up by one of my colleagues at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in his car, and vanishes. Both are pure intellects capable of metamorphic embodiment, though they don’t particularly enjoy being human. In Mendoza’s novel a pair of extraterrestrials land in Cerdanyola, next door to my own university, on a Christian/anthropological mission to explore Earth. (1982, written by the late Melissa Mathison). It belongs to the science-fiction subgenre of the ‘stranded alien tale’, popularized, above all, by Steven Spielberg’s family film E.T. 1943, Barcelona Premio Cervantes 2016), which was originally serialised in El País, back in 1989. Sin noticias de Gurb (1990, English translation No Word from Gurb ), is a short novel by Eduardo Mendoza (b.
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