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(0)Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 574
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Español
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"No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea ..., nos advierten con frecuencia los distintos narradores y personajes de esta historia, en la que lo corriente se transforma en un delirio sin que uno sepa muy bien cómo, en la que lo raro acaba siendo normal y en la que no podemos hacer otra cosa que reírnos, porque todo es hilarante, cotidiano y surrealista a la vez, como la vida misma." --
"In this story, the ordinary becomes a delirium without one knowing...
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147 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer. Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this...
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244 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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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 grueling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and...
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233 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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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 Gast̤n 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...
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Crónicas Anagrama volume 118
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144 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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Español
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"Cuenta diez historias centradas en los más vulnerables: los niños. En 2016, el autor entrevistó en Nueva York y Los Angeles a diez inmigrantes que entraron en Estados Unidos entre 2011 y 2014 con la intención de reunirse con sus familias. Cuando cruzaron la frontera tenían entre diez y diecisiete años y procedían de El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala. Este es un libro que pretende dar voz a quienes no la tienen, poner rostro a las frías cifras...