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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

Juan Pablo Villalobos

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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 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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Barcelona, Mexico, immigration, humour, mother, Kurt Vonnegut, Roberto Bolaño, Alvaro Enrigue, gangster, Roberto Bolano, drug dealer, Mexican literature, translated fiction, Herralde Prize, contemporary fiction, campus novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, Quesadillas, Yuri Herrera, I’ll Sell You a Dog, comedy, novel, literary fiction, Spain, translation, Malcolm Lowry, mafia, Mexican writers, crime