I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
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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.
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos nació en México en 1973 y vive en Barcelona desde 2003. En Anagrama ha publicado todas sus novelas, traducidas en más de quince países: Fiesta en la madriguera: «Divertida, convincente, asombrosa» (Ali Smith); «Una estupenda fábula de final cruelmente feliz que se lee como una novela iniciática carbonatada» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); Si viviéramos en un lugar normal: «Una obra que juega con las nociones del realismo mágico. Un estilo poco convencional y lacónico que impresiona y define a Villalobos como un escritor excepcional» (Lucy Popescu, The Independent); Te vendo un perro: «Uno de los libros más ingeniosos, juguetones y disfrutables que se han publicado en español en mucho tiempo» (Alberto Manguel); No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea (Premio Herralde de Novela 2016 y llevada al cine por Fernando Frías de la Parra): «La inteligencia del autor se impone… Una valiosísima propuesta literaria» (Francisco Solano, El País); La invasión del pueblo del espíritu: «Muy divertida, ágil como un paseante feliz, una celebración de la amistad, de la esperanza» (Nadal Suau, El Mundo); Peluquería y letras: «Una novela sobre la épica doméstica, sobre los gestos banales que se van engarzando unos a otros para acabar componiendo un intenso cuadro familiar, personalísimo, repleto de escenas disparatadas, cuando no surrealistas» (Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico); «Como si Buster Keaton por fin se animara a esbozar una sonrisa. Una novela sin conflicto, sobre la felicidad» (Daniel Fermín, Zenda) y El pasado anda atrás de nosotros. También ha publicado el libro de no ficción Yo tuve un sueño: «Una crónica desoladora de las migraciones centroamericanas a USA... Sobresaliente» (Luisgé Martín).
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