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The Guilty

By Juan Villoro & Kimi Traube
The Guilty by Juan Villoro & Kimi Traube digital book - Fable

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“The literature of Juan Villoro…is opening up the path of the new Spanish novel of the millennium.” Roberto Bolaño

A brilliant, prize-winning collection of stories by Mexico’s most important living writer. From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of mariachi singers, Villoro reveals the deep dissatisfactions and absurdities of life in Mexico and its carnivalesque capital. We encounter a border trucker making a movie about illegal migrants, a cuckolded football superstar, and a gluten-free American journalist seeking the authentic Mexican experience. A master of the post-modern narrative, Villoro gives us contemporary Mexico through a complex interplay of culture and character psychology in the most surprising, fresh and humorous ways. 

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““In scripts, “INT” refers to the interior, and mine is decorated with sofas. That’s as deep as I go. Anything else is the delusion of a woman who made a mistake searching for depths in me, and who hurt me by believing I was capable of plumbing them myself.” About 4 years ago I saw this book on the librarian recommendations table along with Clarice Lispector(who at the time I had never heard of) and A General Theory of Oblivion. I’m glad I took a picture of the books to not forget my interest, but enough about me. Villoro has a punchy, satirical style and some really delicious sentences in each story. I got a kick out of this short collection. Tidy.”

About Juan Villoro

Juan Villoro is one of Mexico’s most prolific, prize-winning fiction writers. His books have won the Herralde Award, Antonin Artaud Award and The Reef was shortlisted for the Rezzori Prize. He lives in Mexico City and is a visiting lecturer at Yale and Princeton Universities.

Kimi Traube

Kimi Traube has an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. Her translation of Juan Villoro's work has been published in BOMB Magazine.

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