Sign-In
Cart
Jonas and the Catcorns: A surreal comedy about the curse of being normal
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 2 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From award-winning author F. J. Asensi - winner of the Don Manuel Short Story Prize 2025 and finalist at the Puy du Fou Literary Awards 2025 - comes one of the most original, absurd, and strangely moving novels of recent years.
What if normality was the real illness?
Jonas and the catcorns is an absurd comedy about a man who refuses to fit into a world that insists on making sense. Jonah, armed with his aluminum hat and a fragile grip on reality, wanders through a universe where logic twists, the impossible feels familiar, and the ordinary becomes terrifying. Along the way, he encounters tax-suckers, smoke-sellers, bureaucratic monsters, and the enigmatic catcorns-creatures that shouldn't exist, yet somehow explain everything.
Blending satire, surrealism, and dark humor, Javier Asensi creates a literary fable that defies classification. It's Kafka meets Terry Gilliam, Orwell rewritten by DalÃ: a journey through the absurd that ends up feeling dangerously close to the truth.
Perfect for readers who enjoy experimental fiction, philosophical satire, and the beauty of nonsense, Jonas and the catcorns is not just a story-it's an experience.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Paperback