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I don't expect anyone to believe me / Juan Pablo Villalobos ; translated by Daniel Hahn.

by Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 1973-

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And Other Stories, 2020.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

College students -- Fiction.

Gangsters -- Fiction.

Cousins -- Fiction.

Children of politicians -- Fiction.

Mexico -- Fiction.

Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction.

9781911508489 (trade pbk)

No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea. English

Alternate title:

I do not expect anyone to believe me

277 p. ; 20 cm.

First published as "No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea" by Editorial Anagrama in 2016.

Translated from the Spanish.

'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.

Humorous fiction.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

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