Boxwood
By: Camilo José Cela ; translated by Patricia Haugaard
Contributors: Haugaard, Patricia
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Authors, Spanish -- Translations into English; Galicia (Spain : Region) -- Fiction
Genres: Translations into English; Fiction
Work titles: Madera de Boj.
Description: "Boxwood, which can perhaps best be described as a non-novel, has none of the structural signposts readers generally expect: there is no plot, no crux, no denouement.

Instead we have a mix of folklore, tradition, superstition, autobiographical snatches, cooking directions, a litany of nautical disasters on the Coast of Death - ships from afar with cargoes of oranges, typewriters, iron ore, oil, spices - elements of nature both cruel and beautiful, of man both saint and sinner, whales, witches, mermaids, ghosts, the exquisite, the crass, all against the background of Cela's birthplace, Galicia."--BOOK JACKET.