A brief and majestic debut. --Matías Néspolo, El Mundo

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. 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 that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants, and the odd corrupt politician or two. Long-listed for The Guardian First Book Award, Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

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The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona

'I don't expect anyone to believe me, ' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin--a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as 'Projects' and to others as 'dickhead' - who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make Laia, the daughter of a corrupt politician, fall in love with him. He accepts . . . though not before the crime boss has forced him at gunpoint into a discussion on the limits of humour in literature.

Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects - immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love - in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who's telling the joke.

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron. This is a darkly comic novel of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

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, colonised 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 called Max, who's in a deep depression after being forced to close his restaurant. Meanwhile, Max's son, Pol, a scientist away on a scientific expedition into the Arctic, can offer little support.

Gastón begins a quest, or rather three: he must search for someone to put his dog to sleep humanely; he must find a space in which to open a new restaurant with Max; and he must look into the truth behind the news being sent back by Pol: that human life may be the by-product of an ancient alien attempt at colonisation . . . and those aliens might intend to make a return visit.

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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 their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor, and Pollux. Confined to their home, the family bears witness to the revolt against the Institutional Revolutionary Party and their umpteenth electoral fraud. This political upheaval is only the beginning of Orestes's adventures and his uproarious crusade against the boredom of rustic life and the tyranny of his older brother.
Both profoundly moving and wildly funny, Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos's Quesadillas is a satiric masterpiece, chock-full of inseminated cows, Polish immigrants, religious pilgrims, alien spacecraft, psychedelic watermelons, and many, many your mama insults.

Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.

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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 book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival--including two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters--offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.-Central American refugee crisis.

In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.

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. 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.

En un futuro impreciso, Sebasti n, un investigador independiente de inteligencia artificial descubre c mo su vida amorosa y su vida social empiezan a hacer mella por culpa de lo que parece ser un problema de alcoholismo. Sin embargo, dicho problema esconder problemas m s b sicos que residen en la comunicaci n humana. Mientras Sebasti n y los dem s personajes de la novela tratan de descubrir el origen de la conciencia para desarrollar un androide que pueda sentir como los humanos, asistiremos absortos a la incapacidad de cada uno de ellos para comunicarse directamente con los dem s. Cyborgs tan cotidianos y aburridos que parecen inveros miles; la mujer ideal, cargada de indecisi n e inseguridad; la mujer misteriosa, erotizante como el humo; el ciclista, bebedor puntual de las tres y treinta y tres de la ma ana; el camarero so ador con aspiraciones de fil sofo; el poeta desgraciado que siempre cuelga de los techos; el jefe de investigaci n que promueve la revelaci n cient fica y esconde en cambio su homosexualidad; y finalmente Sebasti n, el m s desgraciado de todos los personajes. Su dilema -entre el impulso por descubrir el origen de la conciencia y la mala conciencia por tratar de descubrirla- perfila una narraci n m s bien leve, aparentemente inexistente, que devuelve el valor a las palabras (tan fingidas como cre bles) frente a los hechos. Para aquellos que busquen simplemente una historia, resultar sta una narraci n confusa llena de recovecos inexplicables, pero tampoco a ellos les dejar indiferentes un estilo cuidado tanto en el lenguaje como en esos peque os gestos descuidados que traicionan las emociones de cada personaje (a veces el lector). Asistiremos pues en estas l neas, m s propias en ocasiones de un lenguaje cinematogr fico, al fracaso progresivo de la t cnica, que no es ni m s ni menos que el mism simo fracaso de lo humano.

Este manual titulado Ética y valores profesionales en la salud conductual, escrito por Juan Pablo Villalobos García es una guía fundamental para especialistas en salud conductual, como mentores de recuperación, acompañantes de pares, consejeros de adicciones y asociados de salud mental calificados, consejeros de juego patológico, promotores de salud, y doulas. La obra hace referencia a los principios éticos y valores morales esenciales que rigen las labores de diferentes especialista de salud conductual, como lo son los fundamentos básicos de la ética, perspectiva para abordar dilemas éticos, obligaciones mandatorias de los trabajadores de salud conductual, además la obra hace referencia sobre la importancia de la responsabilidad ética, y múltiples historia de aprendizaje ético. Este manual es una obra modelo para profesionales comprometidos con una práctica ética saludable y honesta, este libro es una herramienta de abogacía, para prácticas responsables e inclusivas en la salud conductual.