Author: Camilo José Cela
- Fiction
- Real Academia Española / Alfaguara
- ISBN: 9788420420684
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Set in the cafes of Madrid and boasting a legion of characters, La colmena is a choral novel which masterfully describes the misery of the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. The characters survive hunger, the economic and moral strictures, and above all, the lack of hope, in a sordid and gray atmosphere.