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A new novel from the Mexican author of "Down The Rabbit Hole" and "Quesadillas", following the life of an old man who was once an artist, and then a taco seller. A comic take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity with scurrilous antics and oddball characters.

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and more. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout. Long-listed for "The Guardian" First Book Award, a masterful and darkly comic first novel chronicling a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

Wie viele Kakerlaken passen in einen Aufzug? Wie nützlich ist Adornos "Ästhetische Theorie" beim Abwimmeln von bekehrungseifrigen Mormonen? Lebt die Revolution? Und vor allem: Was steckt wirklich in einem Taco? Fragen über Fragen, die Juan Pablo Villalobos in seinem rasanten Seniorenroman aufs vergnüglichste beantwortet. Nabel der fiktiven Welt ist in diesem Fall ein Wohnhaus im Herzen von Mexico City, wo der ganz normale Wahnsinn der Stadt au...

A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa)It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno-a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows-and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high-school civics teacher, insists on practicing and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to ...

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