Rosalind Harvey

Quesadillas

Buch

It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family is struggling to get by. The father, a school teacher, insists on practising and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor and Pollux. The family witnesses a revolt against the Institutional Revolutionary Party and its umpteenth electoral fraud. This political upheaval is only the beginning of Orestes' adventures and his uproarious crusade against the boredom of rustic life and th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Villalobos, Juan Pablo (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-908276-69-8
EAN: 9781908276698
Produktnummer: 18948824
Verlag: And Other Stories
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.3 cm 138 g
Gewicht: 138
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He's the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (2011) and Quesadillas (2013), both published by And Other Stories. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. He writes for several publications including Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Granta and the English Pen blog, and translates Brazilian literature into Spanish. He lived in Barcelona for several years, then moved to Brazil, and is now back in Spain. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children.