I'll sell you a dog
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 residen...
| Main Author: | Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 1973- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Harvey, Rosalind, 1982- (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Published: |
Los Angeles :
And Other Stories,
2016.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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 grueling 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 neighbors, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer. |
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| Item Description: |
"First published as Te vendo un perro in 2014 by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
244 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781908276742 |
| Author Notes: |
Rosalind Harvey was born in Bristol in 1982. Her translation of Juan Pablo Villalobos's novel Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She runs regular translation-related public events in the UK and is a founding member and chair of the Emerging Translators Network, an advice and support network for early-career literary translators. |