{"product_id":"9781564787705","title":"Siege in the Room : Three Novellas (Catalan Literature)","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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46253215481935,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":523.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781564787705","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}