Which was a strange though enjoyable novel - some mixture of slapstick comedy, melodramatic soap opera, spy novel and entirely serious historical fiction (as you can tell from the sub-title, it's set in Madrid immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and it had me reading up and checking facts on Wikipedia a lot).

Next up: Maybe give Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon another pass. I'll see if I can get my hands on The Sparrow in time for the Book Club (or in time to show up fashionably late to the party, perhaps more likely).