About the event
Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Juan Pablo Villalobos to discuss his brilliant book ‘The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves’, translated by Daniel Hahn
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After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit family and help care for his elderly mother. Instead, however, he finds himself at a bar, his fist inches from the face of Everardo, his sort-of childhood friend. He lands the blow and runs home.
But when Everardo turns up dead the next morning, JP soon finds himself blamed for a murder that he (probably) didn’t commit. What’s going on? Can Lagos really be more full of drugs, extortion, and fraud than when he left? Why is everyone offering him pills? How’s he ever going to pay for his mother’s medical treatment? It wasn’t even that good a punch!Weaving outright hilarity with wry tenderness, The Past Pursues Us is a fast-paced and funny whodunit that lovingly speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about home: about what changes, what doesn’t, and what should.
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Category: Talks & Readings
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Price: £0.00–14.99
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Venue
Name: Argonaut Books
Address: 15-17 Leith Walk, EH6 8LN