by Quim Monzó · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433971685
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Mil cretinos is a collection of nineteen stories by the writer Quim Monzó, where black humor is intertwined with reflections on pain, old age, death, love, and everyday disagreements. Monzó keenly observes the balance between happiness and unhappiness, revealing the sadness that lies beneath the surface of everyday life. The stories explore human nature with a mixture of tenderness and cruelty, inviting the reader to smile at the everyday miseries.
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.
