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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 hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist, Villalobos's old man can't help but misbehave: he antagonises his neighbours, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I'll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
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I'll sell you a dog, Juan Pablo Villalobos
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
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- Titel
- I'll sell you a dog
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Juan Pablo Villalobos
- Verlag
- And Other Stories
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 244
- ISBN10
- 1908276746
- ISBN13
- 9781908276742
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Humor, Gegenwartsliteratur, Spanische Literatur, 21. Jahrhundert, Latein
- Bewertung
- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist, Villalobos's old man can't help but misbehave: he antagonises his neighbours, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I'll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.