
Guadalajara
Quim Monzo(Author)
Open Letter (Publisher)
Published on 28. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-934824-19-1 (ISBN)
Description
All 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 from the rich 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 Monzo at his acerbic and witty best.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester, NY
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934824-19-1 (9781934824191)
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Person
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 d'Or Prize for the best book of the year, and the Catalan Writers' Award; he has been awarded Serra d'Ormagazine's prestigious Critics' Award four times. He has also translated numerous authors into Catalan, including Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, and Ernest Hemingway.
Peter Bush is a renowned translator from Catalan, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He was awarded the Valle-Inclán Literary Translation Prize for his translation of Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga.