By teasing out the relationships between sex and death. . . The Enormity of the Tragedy presents the fundamental loneliness of a sex-driven culture. . . a plotty read that manages to be fun depsite heavy subject matter and two dislikable leads." The ...
"A gifted writer, he draws well on the rich tradition of Spanish surrealism . . . to sustain the lyrical, visionary quality of his imagination." -- New York TimesAll the heroes of this story collection -- the boy who refuses to follow the family trad...
"Today's best known writer in Catalan. He is also, no exaggeration, one of the world's great short-story writers." -- The Independent
A Thousand Morons, Quim Monzó's latest collection of short stories, is rife with very unfortunate characte...
A man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolves immediately. Over the course of a phone call, a man learns that his girlfriend died months ago, and that heâ€...