Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.‘That rarest of animals, a book that is, to all intents and purposes, perfect’ Sarah Churchwell, Book of the Year in the New Statesman
'If you're going to have an imprisoned child narrate a novel, then not so much as a word should be out of place. There are no such slips in Juan Pablo Villalobos's debut novella. We have here a control over the material which is so tight it is almost claustrophobic. This is a novel about failing to understand the bigger picture, and in its absence we can see it more clearly.’ Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Mexico in 1973. He’s the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (2011) and Quesadillas (2013), both published by And Other Stories. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. He writes for several publications including Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Granta and the English Pen blog, and translates Brazilian literature into Spanish. He has lived in Barcelona and Brazil, and is now back in Spain. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908276001 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908276002 |
| Title | Down the Rabbit Hole |
| Author | Juan Pablo Villalobos |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | And Other Stories |
| Year published | 2011-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2011 |
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