Juan Pablo Villalobos - Böcker

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and more. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout. Long-listed for "The G...

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Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.You can't really tell what time it is whe...

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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 ...

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A brilliant new comic novel from "e;a linguistic virtuoso"e; (Jose 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 ...

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For this striking, stripped-down account of youth immigration, Villalobos interviewed teens at various stages of the immigration process to illustrate their stories - the physical and emotional difficulties of their travels. He then changed certai...

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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 hypo...

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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 thu...

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Juan Pablo Villalobos's fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer absurdity. In an unnamed city, colonised by ...

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for hi...

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For this striking, stripped-down account of youth immigration, Villalobos interviewed teens at various stages of the immigration process to illustrate their stories-the physical and emotional difficulties of their travels. He then changed certain ...

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Wieviele Kakerlaken passen in einen Aufzug? Hilft ¿Adorno gegen amerikanische Missionare? Lebt die Revolution? Und vor allem: Was steckt »wirklich« in einem Taco? Fragen über Fragen, die Juan Pablo Villalobos in seinem rasanten Senioren¿roman...

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Ihr Weg fuhrte durch die "e;Kuhlschranke"e; - so nennen die Kinder aus Mittelamerika die kargen, klimatisierten Auffangzentren in den USA. Davor lag eine lange, gefahrliche Reise, die manche ihrer Gefahrten nicht uberlebten. Juan Pablo Vil...

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Todo empezó cuando Nellie, quien se creÿa la lÿder de la pandilla, nos ordenó seguirla a la taquerÿa. Sabino tenÿa que poner una cara que hiciera suceder el milagro de que alguien nos regalara los Sagrados Tacos del dÿa. Yo tenÿa que hacer...

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Rafael Bernal desconcierta y abruma, sorprende, fascina e intimida; levanta ampollas ideologicas e irrita a los afligidos por la ansiedad clasificatoria. Donde colocarlo? Cual es su nicho en el camposanto de las letras mexicanas?Muchos quisieron d...

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Lo scopo di questa ricerca è presentare l'aula di istruzione premilitare dell'Università Cattolica Cecilio Acosta (UNICA) come una proposta didattica per rafforzare l'identità nazionale. Questo lavoro è inquadrato all'interno di diverse correnti m...

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In this story, the ordinary becomes a delirium without one knowing very well how, in which the rare ends up being normal and in which we can't do anything but laugh, because everything is hilarious and surreal at the same time. This story is a mir...

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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 fac...

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