# I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

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- Authors: [Juan Pablo Villalobos](https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-pablo-villalobos)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2020-04-30
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize“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. Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects—immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love—in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who’s telling the joke. Praise for Juan Pablo Villalobos:''Funny, convincing, appalling... a punch-packer.'' Ali Smith''Savagely funny.'' Lili Wright, New York Times

## Editions

### I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

- Publisher: And Other Stories
- ISBN: 978-19-1150-848-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2020-04-30
- Language: en_US