Name: Quesadillas
SKU: 46987057
Price: 20.66 EUR
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Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
ISBN: 9780374533953

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Translated by

Rosalind Harvey

Introduction by

Neel Mukherjee

Publisher

Fsg Originals

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3x12.6x1.2 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780374533953

Synopsis "Quesadillas"

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.

Juan Pablo Villalobos

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Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1973, and grew up in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. He holds a degree in Administration and Marketing and also in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Veracruzana. His bachelor's thesis was dedicated to literary genres and representation in the memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier.

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