Guadalajara

By Quim Monzó, Peter Bush

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Open Letter, May 2011

Fiction > Short Stories

eBook release: December 2011

ISBN: 9781934824504

Language: English

Download options: EPUB (DRM-Free)

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A gifted writer.New York TimesAll the heroes of this story collectionthe boy who refuses to follow the family tradition of having his ring finger cut off; the man who cannot escape his house, no matter what he tries; Robin Hood stealing so much that he ruins the rich and makes the poor wealthy; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human teenager; the prophet who cant remember any of the prophecies that have been revealed to him; Ulysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horseare faced with a world that is always changing, where time and space move in circles, where language has become meaningless. Their stories are mazes from which they cant escape.The simultaneously dark, grotesque, and funny GUADALAJARA reveals Quim Monzó at his acerbic and witty best.-----About the author: Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952. He has been awarded the National Award, the City of Barcelona Award, the Prudenci Bertrana Award, the El Temps Award, the Lletra dOr Prize for the best book of the year, and the Catalan Writers Award, and he has abeen awarded Serra dOr magazines prestigious Critics Award four times. He has also translated numerous authors into Catalan, including Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger, and Ernest Hemingway.

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