Bøger af Juan Pablo Villalobos

Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer.

This is a novel about the past coming back. About family, former friends, an ex-girlfriend and Mexico. About the maturation process of a son whom his mother always accused of sneaking away, of avoiding the problem, of running away so as not to face reality... Until reality confronts him and there is no escape.

"No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea..., nos advierten con frecuencia los distintos narradores y personajes de esta historia, en la que lo corriente se transforma en un delirio sin que uno sepa muy bien câomo, en la que lo raro acaba siendo normal y en la que no podemos hacer otra cosa que reâirnos, porque todo es hilarante, cotidiano y surrealista a la vez, como la vida misma." --

A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa)It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno-a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows-and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high-school civics teacher, insists on practicing and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor, and Pollux. Confined to their home, the family bears witness to the revolt against the Institutional Revolutionary Party and their umpteenth electoral fraud. This political upheaval is only the beginning of Orestes's adventures and his uproarious crusade against the boredom of rustic life and the tyranny of his older brother. Both profoundly moving and wildly funny, Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos's Quesadillas is a satiric masterpiece, chock-full of inseminated cows, Polish immigrants, religious pilgrims, alien spacecraft, psychedelic watermelons, and many, many "your mama" insults.

What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

The future belongs to the migrant, the outsider, the foreigner. Long live our alien masters!

Orestes' mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas for Orestes and the rest of their brood. After another fraudulent election and the disappearance of his younger brothers Castor and Pollux, he heads off on an adventure. With Quesadillas, Juan Pablo Villalobos serves up a madcap satire of politics, big families, and what it means to be middle class.

The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona