by Quim Monzó · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433972972
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«El mejor de los mundos» is the short story collection by Quim Monzó, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Thirteen stories and a short novel in which Monzó combines black humour with a cruel gaze on happiness, violence and private hells. The central piece follows a Catalan writer obsessed with winning the Nobel, in a story that goes from the pathetic to the hilarious.
Published in 2007 in Barcelona, it is part of Anagrama's Compactos collection, number 443.
Aimed at a general readership of contemporary fiction and short stories.
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.
