by Quim Monzó · Quaderns Crema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477271642
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Guadalajara» is Quim Monzó's short story collection, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (197 pages, in Catalan).
The book brings together fourteen stories that use the song «Guadalajara» as an implicit thread; they are grotesque, feverish and precise tales portraying human unease with corrosive humor and surrealist elements, moving away from costumbrismo to enter territories close to the Kafkaesque fable.
The volume belongs to the Mínima de butxaca collection (number 65) and won the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Contes i Narracions in 1997.
For readers of contemporary short fiction who appreciate acid humor, surrealism and psychological observation.
Joaquim Monzó i Gómez, also known as Quim Monzó, is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXpres. He was one of the members of the Catalan literary collective, Ofèlia Dracs. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia.
