Product Description: The extraordinary experimental final novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of oranges, typewriters, iron ore, oil, spices), elements of nature both cruel and beautiful, whales, priests, witches, ghosts—sprinkled with various autobiographies— everything exquisite and crass in Cela's native home, Galicia, Spain...read more

The Nobel laureate offers a mix of image fragments blended to create a harmonious whole.

Product Description: Translated from the Spanish by Patricia Haugaard, a novel set in a backward village in Galicia at the end of the Spanish Civil War, in which a man seeks revenge for the abduction and murder of his brother. From the author of THE HIVE.