by Camilo José Cela · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496390980
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«La colmena» is the novel by Camilo José Cela, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (347 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Madrid in 1943, the novel follows a broad mosaic of characters trying to make their way through hunger, black marketeering and the aftermath of the civil war. With more than two hundred characters, Cela composes a choral and bitter chronicle of everyday life in the cafés, streets and bedrooms of the postwar period.
It is part of the «Caminos inciertos» series and the Clásicos Españoles collection from El País (no. 48); it was originally published in 1951.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish fiction and postwar classics.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
