{"product_id":"the-siege-in-the-room-miquel-bauca-9781564787316","title":"The 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 1564787311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564787316\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 Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miquel Bauca","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45980853829887,"sku":"9781564787316","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48cc73a8-b652-4113-8bcc-9a581469fb9b.jpg?v=1722416945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-siege-in-the-room-miquel-bauca-9781564787316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}