Down the Rabbit Hole

"A brief & majestic debut." —Matías Néspolo, El MundoTochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, & 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, & Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants, & the odd corrupt politician or two. Long-listed for The Guardian First Book Award, Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful & darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.°°° Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He’s the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (2011), Quesadillas (2013) & I'll Sell You a Dog (2016). His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. He writes for several publications including Letras Libres, Gatopardo, Granta & the English Pen blog, & translates Brazilian literature into Spanish. He lived in Barcelona for several years, then moved to Brazil, & is now back in Spain. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. 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. 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