I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
Author | : Juan Pablo Villalobos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 1911508490 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781911508496 |
Rating | : 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: '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 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.