While his father preaches Hellenic virtues and practises the art of the insult, Orestes’ mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas for their seven children. She insists they are middle class, but Orestes is not convinced. And after another fraudulent election and the disappearance of his younger brothers, Orestes goes off on an adventure and learns much about families, truth and bovine artificial insemination.

With Quesadillas, Juan Pablo Villalobos serves up a wild banquet. Anything goes in this madcap Mexican satire about politics, big families, and what it means to be middle-class.

From the Guardian First Book Award and Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlisted author

'Quesadillas is bursting with Villalobos' comic intervention' El País

'Villalobos has come to stay - and to say loud and clear that in Mexico almost anything is possible.' El Periódico de Catalunya

'This book will deliver a much-needed jolt to the anglosphere cocooned in its realism-induced narcolepsy.' Neel Mukherjee