Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right w 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 cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, dealers, and the odd corrupt politician or two. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first vel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
And Other Stories
ISBN-10
1908276002
ISBN-13
9781908276001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108522554
Product Key Features
Author
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Format
With Flaps, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
High Wycombe
Introduction by
Adam Thirlwell
Translated by
Rosalind Harvey
Prizes
Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2011.
Author Biography
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He now lives in Madrid, Spain, and has two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. Down the Rabbit Hole is his first novel and is being translated into seven languages.