Улей by Camilo José Cela
A mosaic of interlocking vignettes set in post–Civil War Madrid, the novel follows dozens of characters—shopkeepers, prostitutes, intellectuals, clerks and ex-soldiers—over a few days as their lives brush against one another in cramped cafés, boarding houses and streets; through brief, unsparing scenes it reveals hunger, hypocrisy, loneliness and small acts of tenderness, creating a crowded, claustrophobic portrait of a city under repression and the fragile human efforts to survive with dignity.
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- 1951
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- 300-400 pages
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- The Hive
- Улей
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