by Juan Pablo Villalobos (Author), Rosalind Harvey (Translator)
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Villalobos's debut has sold over 10,000 copies in the UK
Author Biography
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. He lived in Barcelona for several years where he published his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, then moved to Brazil, before returning to Spain. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. His fourth novel I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me won Spain's prestigious Herralde Prize and will be published in English translation in 2019 by And Other Stories.