Quesadillas (14 page)
Authors: Neel Mukherjee Rosalind Harvey Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Current & Upcoming Books by And Other Stories
01
Juan Pablo Villalobos,
Down the Rabbit Hole
translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
02
Clemens Meyer,
All the Lights
translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
03
Deborah Levy,
Swimming Home
04
Iosi Havilio,
Open Door
translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler
05
Oleg Zaionchkovsky,
Happiness is Possible
translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
06
Carlos Gamerro,
The Islands
translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett
07
Christoph Simon,
Zbinden’s Progress
translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin
08
Helen DeWitt,
Lightning Rods
09
Deborah Levy,
Black Vodka: ten stories
10
Oleg Pavlov,
Captain of the Steppe
translated from the Russian by Ian Appleby
11
Rodrigo de Souza Leão,
All Dogs are Blue
translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry & Stefan Tobler
12
Juan Pablo Villalobos,
Quesadillas
translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
13
Iosi Havilio,
Paradises
translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler
14
Ivan Vladislavić,
Double Negative
Juan Pablo Villalobos
was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. His first novel,
Down the Rabbit Hole
, was the first translation ever to be shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (in 2011) and the book has been translated into fifteen languages.
Quesadillas
is his second novel. He has researched such diverse topics as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. He lives in Brazil and has two children.
Rosalind Harvey
has lived in Lima and Norwich, where she fell in love with Spanish and translation, respectively. She now lives in east London, where she translates Hispanic fiction. Her translation of
Down the Rabbit Hole
was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize as well as the Guardian First Book Award. She has also worked with Anne McLean on co-translations of prize-winning authors Enrique Vila-Matas and Héctor
Abad.
Neel Mukherjee
is the author of the award-winning debut novel
A Life Apart
. His second novel,
The Lives of Others
, is to be published in
2014.
Title:
Quesadillas
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Editor: Sophie
Lewis
Copy-editor: Lesley Levene
Proofreader: Sarah
Terry
Typesetting & eBook Design:
Tetragon
Set in: 10/15pt Swift Neue Pro, Verlag
Series & Cover Design: Joseph Harries
Format: B Format with French
flaps
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