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Juan Pablo Villalobos

    Juan Pablo Villalobos is an author whose work is characterized by an extraordinary breadth of interests and an original approach to literature. His writing draws from diverse sources, ranging from market research to literary criticism and travel chronicles. With precision and humor, he explores seemingly disparate subjects, from the ergonomics of toilets to eccentricity in Latin American literature. His literary approach is unique, blending academic erudition with an unconventional worldview, offering readers a refreshing and intellectually stimulating experience.

    Invasion of the Spirit People
    Quesadillas
    I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
    Down the Rabbit Hole
    I'll sell you a dog
    The Other Side
    • 2022

      Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely YA nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.

      The Other Side
    • 2022
    • 2022

      Peluquería Y Letras

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Una novela sobre el amor, la vida familiar, el dinero, el éxito profesional, la rutina, el futuro, la salud y el sentido

      Peluquería Y Letras
    • 2020
    • 2019

      "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 de las estadísticas y contar las historias personales que hay detrás de las escuetas noticias. Sus páginas hablan de pobreza, miedo, explotación, violencia, pandilleros, sicarios, calabozos, familias separadas, un tren al que llaman la Bestia ..., pero también de esperanza, entereza y dignidad"--Back cover

      Yo Tuve un Sueno: El Viaje de los Ninos Centroamericanos A Estados Unidos
    • 2018

      Ich hatte einen Traum

      Jugendliche Grenzgänger in Amerika

      Sie leben „im Kühlschrank“ - so nennen die Kinder aus Mittel- und Lateinamerika die kargen Räume in den Gefängnissen und Auffangzentren der USA. Oft haben sie eine lebensgefährliche Reise hinter sich, die viele ihrer Gefährten nicht überlebten. Juan Pablo Villalobos hat sie befragt und ihre Geschichten aufgeschrieben. Es sind Kinder aus Guatemala, aus Honduras, Salvador, Mexiko, die ganz allein die Reise in das gelobte Land im Norden antraten, getrieben von Gewalt und zerstörten Familien. Sie alle träumen den gleichen Traum von einem Leben in Geborgenheit. Und sie alle haben bereits eine Geschichte über sich ergehen lassen, von der manche Erwachsene nicht einmal träumen mögen. Ein nüchternes und doch ergreifendes Stück Literatur vom amerikanischen Kontinent in diesen unseren Zeiten.

      Ich hatte einen Traum
    • 2016

      I'll sell you a dog

      • 244 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.9(113)Add rating

      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 gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist, Villalobos's old man can't help but misbehave: he antagonises his neighbours, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I'll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.

      I'll sell you a dog
    • 2014

      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.

      Quesadillas
    • 2011

      Down the Rabbit Hole

      • 74 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.8(1906)Add rating

      "Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Fiesta en la madriguera by Anagrama, S.A., Barcelona, Spain; English translation originally published in 2011 by And Other Stories, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

      Down the Rabbit Hole