I'll sell you a dog
By: Juan Pablo Villalobos ; translated by Rosalind Harvey
Contributors: Harvey, Rosalind, 1982- translator
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781908276742
Subjects: Older people; Fiction; Artists; Social classes
Other titles: I will sell you a dog
Work titles: Te vendo un perro
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation from Spanish of: Te vendo un perro.

"First published as Te vendo un perro in 2014 by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso.