by Quim Monzó · ISBN 9788422688204
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«El Millor Dels Mons» is the short story collection by Quim Monzó, 248 pages, in Catalan.
The stories are set in everyday situations featuring recognizable characters, and through them explore human relationships, loneliness, and lack of communication. Quim Monzó uses an ironic, often surreal tone to show the contradictions of modern life and turn common scenes into incisive reading.
The volume brings together several independent stories and was published in 2001.
For readers of contemporary short fiction seeking an ironic approach and observations on the everyday.
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.
