{"id":292146,"date":"2012-11-16T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/11\/16\/goodreads-giveaway-for-a-thousand-morons-by-quim-monzo\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:38","slug":"goodreads-giveaway-for-a-thousand-morons-by-quim-monzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/11\/16\/goodreads-giveaway-for-a-thousand-morons-by-quim-monzo\/","title":{"rendered":"GoodReads Giveaway for "A Thousand Morons" by Quim Monzo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our next GoodReads Giveaway just went live—we’re going to be giving away 15 copies of Quim Monz\u00f3’s latest collection, A Thousand Morons<\/em>.<\/a> And not just that, we’re going to include a “Thousand Morons” t-shirt with each copy of the book . . . <\/p>\n

(Speaking of our fantastic t-shirts, we’re going to start shipping these out en masse after Thanksgiving, so if you want one, simply buy a copy of the book<\/a> and we’ll include it with your order. On a personal note, this has become my lucky t-shirt, and if you ever see me out at a bar watching a soccer match—like I will on Sunday when the Seattle Sounders will stage an amazing comeback and destroy the Galaxy—I’ll probably be wearing a bright orange t-shirt with a red bra on it. SEXY<\/span>!)<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s what Publishers Weekly<\/em> had to say about this collection in their STARRED<\/span> REVIEW<\/span>:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest from Catalan author Quim Monz\u00f3 (Guadalajara<\/em>) is a slender yet brilliant collection of stories that subvert the expected, embrace absurdity, and add profundity to the mundane. [. . .] Split into two parts\u2014one containing longer prose, the other, flash fiction\u2014and beautifully translated, Monz\u00f3\u2019s 19 tales succeed so completely thanks to their curious view of the everyday. His is a world in which men become lost in existential thought while glancing out a window, where the Virgin Mary chooses to not bear a child, and where moments of hearty belly laughter are often trailed by gasps of horror. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, enter below to try and win yourself a copy. (Or just buy it—it’s only $10.35, which is approximately half of a Starbucks coffee, and a thousand times as moron-y.)<\/p>\n

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