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‘La Colmena’ is a collective novel that chronicles the daily struggles and murky hopes of hundreds of ordinary citizens in Madrid during the 1940s. Through a series of interlocking vignettes, it portrays the social realities and hardships that defined post‑civil‑war Spain, exposing the resilience and desperation of the city’s populace.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Camilo José Cela
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