I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me: Now a new feature film available on Netflix

Description: I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos, Daniel Hahn The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description I dont 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 hes 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 Dont 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 whos telling the joke. Author Biography Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature, before working as a market researcher, and writing travel stories and literary and film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of Csar Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. His books include his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut Down the Rabbit Hole, as well as Quesadillas and Ill Sell You a Dog. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. I Dont Expect Anyone to Believe Me is his fourth novel.Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, and he has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among others. Review A funny, moving account of status, power and immigration, which also dips into comic literary theory and author hang-ups. Highly entertaining, with a magnificent sucker-punch finish. Paul Ewen----An eccentric hybrid, combining pulpy crime fiction . . . with avant-garde archness. Villaloboss take is refreshingly exuberant.Houman Barekat, The Guardian----A testament to the vibrancy of the Latin American novel. Nick Burns, Literary Review----Villaloboss chaotic, feverish narrative works - it is a challenging, but rewarding read. Lucy Popescu, Financial Times----A wild-eyed, motor-powered, hilarious blast about kidnapping, gangsters and political corruption. Jane Graham, Big Issue----So propulsive its nearly impossible to stop reading. . . This is a hilarious novel, and its brilliant and bittersweet, too, in surprising ways. Pitch-perfect from start to finish. Kirkus starred review----A postmodern thriller and intellectual satire that fizzes with verbal gusto and black humour Max Liu, The i----A fast-paced, irreverent tale. . . intellectually nimble, wildly entertaining, and undeniably filthy. Publishers Weekly----A fantastical world so powerful and mesmerising that its almost impossible to leave it. Morning Star----I Dont Expect Anyone to Believe Me does for The Savage Detectives what The Big Lebowski does for The Big Sleep. . . . This is a comic novel with something for everyone-humor, both high and low, with plenty of jokes to go around. Then again, humor described is humor denied, so when I say I laughed my ass off, I dont expect anyone to believe me. Southwest Review Long Description I dont 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 hes 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 Dont 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 whos telling the joke. Review Quote "We laugh (a lot!), although perhaps we shouldnt, as each laugh carries the implicit admission that some of what we are laughing at is actually true." --JNadal Suau, El Cultural, El Mundo "With a torrential, expressive rhythm, a continuous series of happy absurdities, the nostalgic sensibility of the immigrant and a devastating humour, Juan Pablo Villalobos has written a magnificent novel that provokes reflection on multicultural values and the meaning and importance of tolerance." --Jes Description for Sales People *Winner of Spains prestigious Herralde Prize (previous winners include Bola Details ISBN1911508482 Author Daniel Hahn Pages 288 Publisher And Other Stories Year 2020 Translator Daniel Hahn ISBN-10 1911508482 ISBN-13 9781911508489 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 863.7 Publication Date 2020-04-21 UK Release Date 2020-04-21 Imprint And Other Stories Place of Publication High Wycombe Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Spanish NZ Release Date 2020-04-21 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-07-31 Subtitle Now a new feature film available on Netflix! 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