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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Bush , Peter BushPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers Imprint: Peter Owen Publishers Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9780720612998ISBN 10: 0720612993 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 18 July 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'With an incomparable narrative rhythm, page after page multiplies and augments and surprizes the imaginative capacity of the reader ...Quim Monzo has managed to create a novel in which life and death are drawn with a untameable peculiarity. He has also achieved something more important: that the reader doesn't despair and comes to trust blindly in the morality of high literature ' - El Pais ''Quim Monzo knows Barcelona and its citizens -their work, their obsessions and their comic quirks so well that he creates an image more stimulating than any number of guides' - Le Monde ' Monzo has marshalled a parody that tends towards the grotesque and that resolves itself finally in the cruel and mocking grimace of fate. At at time that distinguishes itself through hyper-representation of itself, when exhibitioism has been converted into the only value that seems to be recognised, it is an immense irony that Monzo is proposing, this is without doubt the best of his books' - La Vanguardia A gifted writer, he draws well on the rich tradition of Spainsh surrealism to put a deliberately paranoic sense of menace in apparently mundane everyday and also to sustain the lyrical, visionary quality of his imagination' - New York Times Author InformationQuim Monzo was born in Barcelona in 1952. He has been awarded the National Award for fiction; the City of Barcelona Award for fiction; the Prudenci Bertrana Award for fiction; the El Temps Award for best novel; the Lletra d'Or Prize for the best book of the year; the Catalan Writers' Award; he has also been awarded Serra d'Or magazine's prestigious Critics' Award, four times. He has translated the following authors into Catalan: Truman Capote, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Hardy, Harvey Fierstein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Roald Dahl, Mary Shelley, Roald Dahl, Howard Barker, Arthur Miller... Together with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogues for Bigas Luna's movie Jamon, jamon. He has also written the musical satire El tango de Don Joan, with Jerome Savary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |