Down the Rabbit Hole
A Novel| By: | Juan Pablo Villalobos |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780374143350 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780374709037 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Through a child ' s eyes, the Mexican author's debut novella "brilliantly encapsulates the chaos of a lawless existence . . . under the sway of drug lords" (Lucy Popescu, The Independent , UK). Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and dictionaries. What he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel. His palacial home is a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants, and the odd corrupt politician or two. Longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish. "A brief and majestic debut." —Matias Nespolo, El Mundo