Guadalajara - Softcover

"Though one of the pitfalls of existential or absurdist literature is the sacrifice of "heart" and emotion for "ideas" and philosophy, Monzo, in small, masterful strokes, gives his stories a full-bodied existence."-Armando Celayo, World Literature Today

"In tidy prose, Monzo embarks on pleasant narratives that swiftly prickle the hair on the back of the reader's neck ... This collection possesses moments of delicious absurdity and bracing, dark irony.."-Publishers Weekly

"With a narrator as likely to coddle his guinea pigs as he is to strike a family member, the warning of impending financial disaster, a hidden conspiracy at the bank, and a great foreboding hanging over the novel, the reader often keeps going just to see what, if anything, the author is going to make of this. In the end he is rewarded with a conclusion that justifies this dread, if not entirely explaining it."-Michael Beeman, Foreword Reviews

"Though one of the pitfalls of existential or absurdist literature is the sacrifice of "heart" and emotion for "ideas" and philosophy, Monzo, in small, masterful strokes, gives his stories a full-bodied existence."--Armando Celayo, World Literature Today

"In tidy prose, Monzo embarks on pleasant narratives that swiftly prickle the hair on the back of the reader's neck ... This collection possesses moments of delicious absurdity and bracing, dark irony.."--Publishers Weekly

"With a narrator as likely to coddle his guinea pigs as he is to strike a family member, the warning of impending financial disaster, a hidden conspiracy at the bank, and a great foreboding hanging over the novel, the reader often keeps going just to see what, if anything, the author is going to make of this. In the end he is rewarded with a conclusion that justifies this dread, if not entirely explaining it."--Michael Beeman, Foreword Reviews

"Today's best known writer in Catalan. He is also, no exaggeration, one of the world's great short-story writers."--The Independent

All the heroes of this collectionUlysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horse; the man who cannot escape his house; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human teenagerare faced with a world that is always changing, where time and space move in circles, where language has become meaningless.