I'll Sell You a Dog
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He antagonises his neighbours, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer, and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age . . . while still holding a beer.
A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos nació en México en 1973 y vive en Barcelona desde 2003. En Anagrama ha publicado todas sus novelas, traducidas en más de quince países: Fiesta en la madriguera: «Divertida, convincente, asombrosa» (Ali Smith); «Una estupenda fábula de final cruelmente feliz que se lee como una novela iniciática carbonatada» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); Si viviéramos en un lugar normal: «Una obra que juega con las nociones del realismo mágico. Un estilo poco convencional y lacónico que impresiona y define a Villalobos como un escritor excepcional» (Lucy Popescu, The Independent); Te vendo un perro: «Uno de los libros más ingeniosos, juguetones y disfrutables que se han publicado en español en mucho tiempo» (Alberto Manguel); No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea (Premio Herralde de Novela 2016 y llevada al cine por Fernando Frías de la Parra): «La inteligencia del autor se impone… Una valiosísima propuesta literaria» (Francisco Solano, El País); La invasión del pueblo del espíritu: «Muy divertida, ágil como un paseante feliz, una celebración de la amistad, de la esperanza» (Nadal Suau, El Mundo); Peluquería y letras: «Una novela sobre la épica doméstica, sobre los gestos banales que se van engarzando unos a otros para acabar componiendo un intenso cuadro familiar, personalísimo, repleto de escenas disparatadas, cuando no surrealistas» (Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico); «Como si Buster Keaton por fin se animara a esbozar una sonrisa. Una novela sin conflicto, sobre la felicidad» (Daniel Fermín, Zenda) y El pasado anda atrás de nosotros. También ha publicado el libro de no ficción Yo tuve un sueño: «Una crónica desoladora de las migraciones centroamericanas a USA... Sobresaliente» (Luisgé Martín).
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Reviews for I'll Sell You a Dog
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In the beginning the absurdity and humor of the story keeps you going but about halfway I knew what to expect and it became tedious. There is not enough of a real story going on to pull you through.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyed this quite a bit, despite the 'literary/artistic' culture. Fun book. Latin-American writers are so much more entertaining than Spanish ones...Also got to hang out a bit with Juan Pablo while Rosalind was here (July).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Amusing comic novel, though the jokes start wearing thin after a while. Considering that even children's cartoons and TV commercials are now self-reflexive, I don't understand why other reviewers found that aspect so exciting.