I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me

I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe MeAuthor: Juan Pablo Villalobos ISBN: 9781911508489 Publisher: And Other Stories Year first published: 01 Aug 2020 Pages: 356 Format: Paperback softback '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

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