Villalobos's first book,
Fiesta en la madriguera, has been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Romanian, Dutch and English. Its English translation,
Down the Rabbit Hole by Rosalind Harvey, was published in September 2011 by the UK publishing house
And Other Stories.
Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the 2011
Guardian First Book Award. His second novel,
Quesadillas, was also translated by Rosalind Harvey and was published by
And Other Stories in 2013. His third novel, ''I'll Sell You a Dog,'' was published by
And Other Stories in 2016. His fourth novel, ''I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me,'' was published by
And Other Stories in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2020, and in the United States on 5 May 2020.
Influences Villalobos has said that his first book was inspired by
Nellie Campobello's
Cartucho, a collection of short stories set during the
Mexican Revolution.
Reviews In
Germany, Villalobos is recognized as an important representative of the so-called "narco-literature." His book
Fiesta en la madriguera has been called
"a disillusioned domestic tale from the dark heartland of Latin American machismo". ==Bibliography==