Juan Villoro 
The Guilty: Stories 

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

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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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.