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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

Villalobos, Juan Pablo
Hahn, Daniel

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1911508482
ISBN13: 9781911508489
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: May 5 2020
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

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Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize

The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona

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 humour in literature. Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects--immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love--in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who's telling the joke.

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