Mr Jos Luis de Juan

Winner of the prestigious 'Premio Novela Breve Juan March Cencillo' May 1814. On the island of Elba, the beekeeper Andrea Pasolini awaits the arrival of the defeated, exiled emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. Pasolini is a self-taught disciple of the Enlightenment, whose first love is reading books on philosophy and apiculture—a secret, illicit activity he undertakes in his cellar at night. The...