Down the Rabbit Hole - Softcover

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908276282 ISBN 13: 9781908276285

Publisher: And Other Stories, 2013

Synopsis

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and 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 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 novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

About this title

Review:

'A pint-size novel about innocence, beastliness and a child learning the lingo in a drug wonderland. Funny, convincing, appalling, it's a punch-packer for one so small.' --Ali Smith, Book of the Year, Daily Telegraph.

'Down the Rabbit Hole is a miniature high-speed experiment with perspective - a deliberate, wild attack on the conventions of literature.' --Adam Thirlwell

'That rarest of animals, a book that is, to all intents and purposes, perfect.' --Sarah Churchwell, Book of the Year, New Statesman.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908276282
• ISBN 13: 9781908276285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96