num_pages: 250
description: -- The Hive presents a panoramic view of the degradation and sufferings of the lower-middle class in post-civil war Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of starkly rendered interlocking vignettes. Filled with violence, hunger, and compassion, The Hive captures the buzzing ambitions and set-backs of Spanish society under the rule of Franco.
language: English
title: Hive
titlecomplete: Hive
characters: Camarero 4, Abuela de Elvirita, Don Obdulio Cortés López, Doña Asunción, Fidel, Miguel Contreras, Doña Ramona Bragado, Doña Teresa Corrales, Hermanos Álvarez Quintero, Alfonsito, Cojoncio Alba, Catedrático, Esperanza De Granada, Adolf Hitler, La Eulogia, Fadrique, Camarero, Byron, Cura, Cerillero, Don Fernando Cazuela, Jacinto Del Castillo, Burelos, Don Exuperio Estremera, Doña Filo Marco González, Chico, Bartolomé Anguera, Anita, Emilita, Fidel Bustamante, Estanislao Alba, Carabinero, Pablo Alonso, Duque de Alba, Joaquín Bustamante Valls, Don Ignacio Galdácano, Doña Cuadrado De Ostolaza, Diaz, Asturiano, Francisco, Gabriel, Alcalde, Doña Rosa Leclerc, Don Aniceto Alcalá Zamora, Consorcio López, Alfonso, René Clair, Chica, Escolástica, Abuelo de Julita, Visitación y Esperanza Moisés, Dependiente, Frank Capra, Amigo, Pura Bartolomé Alonso, Camarero 3, Elvira Hernández, Basureros, Asunción, Empleado, Chicas, Abuelo de Paco, Clemente De Diego, Doña Juana Entrena, Viuda De Cortés, Doña Lolita Echevarría De Cazuela, Francisco Javier, Empleada, Doña Soledad Castro De Robles, Telmo García Morrazo, Chús, Manuel Cordel Esteban, Don Jaime Arce, Alfredo Angulo Echevarría, Botones, Amigas, Amigos, Churchill, Joan Crawford, Bernabé, Angelito, Camarero 2, Estrella, Señor Flores, Doña Fructuosa, Don Leonardo Cascajo, Ciego, Don Ventura Aguado Despujols, Doña Carmen, Eudosia, Marquês Casa Peña Zurana, Dorita, Ataúlfo, Ventura Aguado Sans, Chóferes, Julio García Morrazo, Cervantes, Ciclista, Celestino, Doncella, Friedrich Nietzsche
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Spain, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, Drama, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 8596
places: Spain
series: Caminos inciertos
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press