Juan Pablo Villalobos

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

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'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 daughter of a corrupt politician, fall in love with him. He accepts . . . though not before the crime boss has forced him at gunpoint into a discussion on the limits of hum… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hahn, Daniel (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-911508-49-6
EAN: 9781911508496
Produktnummer: 33489086
Verlag: And Other Stories Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'155 KB

Über den Autor

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 César 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 Quesadillasand 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.