description: All the heroes of this story collection—the boy who refuses to follow the family tradition of having his ring finger cut off; the man who cannot escape his house, no matter what he tries; Robin Hood stealing so much from the rich that he ruins the rich and makes the poor wealthy; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human teenager; the prophet who can’t remember any of the prophecies that have been revealed to him; Ulysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horse—are faced with a world that is always changing, where time and space move in circles, where language has become meaningless. Their stories are mazes from which they can’t escape. The simultaneously dark, grotesque, and funny Guadalajara reveals QuimMonzó at his acerbic and witty best.
language: German
title: Guadalajara
titlecomplete: Guadalajara
genres: Spanish Literature, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Spain, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 465
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Contes i Narracions
publisher: Btb Bei Goldmann