Jorge Dezcallar

El anticuario de Teherán

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Synopsis of El anticuario de Teherán:

A gold, coral and aquamarine necklace that an Iranian antique dealer begs Jorge Dezcallar to send to his daughter opens this book, in which the Spanish diplomat reviews his years as ambassador - he was in Morocco, Washington and Rome - and remembers some of the personalities -ministers, kings, actors, presidents- with whom he has shared diplomatic negotiations and also, on occasions, unforgettable evenings.

Conflicts over fishing with Morocco that seriously endanger the relationship between countries, clumsy attempts to offer MoMA a Velázquez in exchange for Guernica, a Moroccan banquet that does not begin until the lamb sent by the king arrives, thanks that are given in the form of a huge box overflowing with sole and hake or a declaration of war with Russia that nobody remembered for more than two hundred years go through these pages, full of endearing, funny, desolate or simply surreal stories, but in any case passionate, written by someone who, as a result of everything lived, has learned "to be tolerant, to contrast my points of view with others and to accept that, above the veneer of races, religions and languages, human beings are essentially the same and we seek the same things by different paths".