Juan Pablo Villalobos
Author
Series
Crónicas Anagrama volume 118
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: This book tells ten stories centered on the most vulnerable: children. In 2016, the author interviewed ten immigrants in New York and Los Angeles who entered the United States between 2011 and 2014 with the intention of reuniting with their families. Cronicas Anagrama series, Mexico, 152pp.
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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, occupied by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gastón makes his living selling exotic vegetables to eateries around the city. He has a dog called Kitten, who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a good friend...