by Patrick Hamilton · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481097221
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«Los esclavos de la soledad» is the novel by Patrick Hamilton published by Galaxia Gutenberg in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
In London in 1943, with the bombing paused and American soldiers awaiting a new front, Miss Roach and other guests of a boarding house live a daily war of blackouts, shortages and rationing. After losing her apartment, she endures a miserable room and shared meals with the insufferable Mr Thwaites.
Translation by Vicente Campos and prologue by Doris Lessing. The work was originally published in 1947 under the title 'The Slaves of Solitude'.
For readers of literary and historical fiction set during World War II, interested in the life of the British civilian population.
Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".
