The Hive

Name: The Hive
Author: Camilo Jose Cela

by Camilo Jose Cela

Urban novel capturing Madrid's underworld through fragmented scenes of everyday violence

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Camilo Jose Cela

Spanish Nobel laureate whose stark and controversial fiction established him as the most important Spanish novelist of the Franco era. The Family of Pascual Duarte and The Hive are masterpieces of social critique.

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