Down The Rabbit Hole Av Juan Pablo Villalobos

<p><strong>Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><em>Down the Rabbit Hole</em>, a masterful and darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child’s wish.</p><p></p>