by Jesús Moncada i Estruga · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474103526
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«El café de la granota» is the short story collection by Jesús Moncada i Estruga, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (96 pages, in Catalan).
In fourteen narratives, Jesús Moncada returns to the legendary past of old Mequinensa, drawing on the conversations of the old café. Singular characters and implausible situations unfold in descriptive prose full of humor and irony, as the author brings back to life a town whose memory survives only in the words of its neighbors.
The work originally appeared in 1985 and this edition is part of the Butxaca collection.
It can serve as school reading or as a first approach to Jesús Moncada's short fiction in Catalan.
Jesús Moncada i Estruga was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-.
