{"product_id":"siege-in-the-room-three-novellas-catalan-literature-1564787702","title":"Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1564787702\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bauca, Miquel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together three short novels by Catalan literature's great maverick and recluse, each depicting a brutal, abstract world where words are the only reality--shifting between the erudite, the archaic, and the vulgar. \"Carrer Marsala,\" which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya--neither of which Bau bothered to accept--is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene, sex, and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona. In \"The Old Man,\" the narrator observes a strange building where a decrepit prisoner is ritually beaten by a policeman once a week. \"The Warden\" details the narrator's own captivity, and his relationship with the woman who keeps him prisoner. In Martha Tennent's haunting translation, reminiscent of a Mediterranean Beckett or Thomas Bernhard, Miquel Bau 's work is a pungent reminder of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931662254368,"sku":"NEW1564787702","price":19.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/siege-in-the-room-three-novellas-catalan-literature-1564787702","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}