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Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize
The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious & prize-winning tale of immigrants, students & 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 & whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin—a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as ‘Projects’ & to others as ‘dickhead’ – who is gagged & 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 & intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects – immigration, corruption, family loyalty & love – in a world where the difference between comedy & tragedy depends entirely on who’s telling the joke.
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Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing & Spanish literature, before working as a market researcher, & writing travel stories & literary & film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira & 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 & 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.
