Down the Rabbit Hole: Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award - Softcover

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191350557X ISBN 13: 9781913505578

Publisher: And Other Stories, 2022

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

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 powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants 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.

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About the Author

Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature before working as a market researcher as well as writing travel stories and literary and film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. His books include his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut Down the Rabbit Hole, as well as Quesadillas, I’ll Sell You a Dog and I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me. Rosalind Harvey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has taught translation at the universities of Bristol and Warwick, is a committee member of the Translators Association and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191350557X
• ISBN 13: 9781913505578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 240