{"product_id":"the-hive-9781681376158","title":"La Colmena","description":"\u003cb\u003eComplete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte--all \"ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed.\" However provocative and disturbing, Cela's novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader's mind. Cela called himself a proponent of \"uglyism,\" of \"nothingism.\" But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, of deploying those \"nothings and lacks\" to construct beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, \u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13396140\"\u003eCamilo José Cela\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 4.96w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681376158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681376156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC056000\"\u003eHispanic \u0026amp; Latino | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014050\"\u003eHistorical | 20th Century | World War II \u0026amp; Holocaust\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC069000\"\u003eCity Life\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamilo José Cela \u003c\/b\u003e(1916-2002) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. Though he wrote prolifically and audaciously in a number of different genres, he is best known for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in Argentina in 1951 after being banned in Franco's Spain. In addition to his writing, he produced drawings and paintings and also appeared in several films. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Womack\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and a translator from Russian and Spanish. His most recent poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eHomunculus\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by the UK press Carcanet in 2020. His translations include Manuel Vilas's \u003ci\u003eHeaven\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48458939793645,"sku":"9781681376158","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_278219c9-9f86-4520-83f6-9bd1c6951fef.jpg?v=1753622454","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/the-hive-9781681376158","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}