Juan Pablo Villalobos
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and more. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout. Long-listed for "The Guardian" First Book Award, a masterful and darkly comic first novel chronicling a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"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?...
Author
Series
Crónicas Anagrama volume 118
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
septiembre 2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuenta diez historias centradas en los más vulnerables: los niños. En 2016, el autor entrevistó en Nueva York y Los Angeles a diez inmigrantes que entraron en Estados Unidos entre 2011 y 2014 con la intención de reunirse con sus familias. Cuando cruzaron la frontera tenían entre diez y diecisiete años y procedían de El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala. Este es un libro que pretende dar voz a quienes no la tienen, poner rostro a las frías cifras...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In an unnamed city, occupied by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gastón makes his living selling exotic vegetables to eateries around the city. He has a dog called Kitten, who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a good friend called Max, who's in a deep depression after being forced to close his restaurant. Meanwhile, Max's son, Pol, a scientist away on a scientific expedition into the Arctic, can offer little support. Gastón begins...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Long before he was the taco seller whose Gringo Dog recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more grueling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted...
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