I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2020
Summary
‘I don’t expect anyone to believe me,’ warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos.
He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he’s kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin - a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as ‘Projects’ and to others as ‘dickhead’ - who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make Laia, the daughte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911508489 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1911508482 |
| Author: | Juan Pablo Villalobos, Daniel Hahn |
| Publisher: | And Other Stories |
| Imprint: | And Other Stories |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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‘Hilariously cutting, furnished with highly stylized coarse humor, Juan Pablo Villalobos’ novels do not follow any rules, other than the logic of the absurd … The author’s intelligence steers us through the jokes and disasters, and especially the nonsense, which he redeems with a leavening sarcasm that turns reading the book into a highly valuable act of literary renewal.’
– Francisco Solano * El País *About The Author
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature, before working as a market researcher, and writing travel stories and literary and film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of Cesar Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. His books include his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut Down the Rabbit Hole, as well as Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Dog. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is his fourth novel.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, and he has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among others.
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