Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzó


Joana Torres Tamarit has just arrived in Galway County Libraries on an EU Leonardo internship from Valencia in Spain.

We sometimes ask our interns the question: "What are the five books you think everyone should read?”

Joana has answered this question and one of the 5 books she recommends is The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzó.

Quim Monzó is the foremost Catalan writer of his generation (Joana, our intern, is a Catalan speaker) The Enormity of the Tragedy is regarded by many as his greatest work.

‘With an incomparable narrative rhythm, page after page multiplies and augments and surprises the imaginative capacity of the reader . . . Quim Monzó 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 País 

The library currently does not have copies of this book. Please contact us if you are interesting in reading the work of Quim Monzó.

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