{"product_id":"siege-in-the-room-miquel-bauca-9781564787705","title":"Siege in the Room: Three Novellas","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miquel Bauca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564787702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564787705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miquel Bauca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939659120895,"sku":"9781564787705","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_034bd9d2-3dfe-43d7-86fa-c83594317cc9.jpg?v=1681442766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/siege-in-the-room-miquel-bauca-9781564787705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}