About
Author: Juan Palbo Villalobos (Mexico)
Genre: Novella
Setting
Place: Jalisco, Mexico
Time: 2000s
My Rating (see what this means)
My Subjective Rating: 3
My ‘Objective’ Rating: 2.9
Short Blog Notice:
I avoid writing full length blogs for all books. I still create a page for my completionist proclivities.
These can be books when I feel I don't have something new I can add over existing online content
OR when I don't like the book
Introduction
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos is an immaculate little story of sweet, spoilt Tochtli and his devastatingly funny pathetic life as a drug lord’s son who just wants a pygmy hippopotamus.
Our young little narrator, surrounded by the sordidity of his criminal father who loves him, leads to disastrous consequences – at least for the hippos.
Hint (has spoilers):
Tochtli likes the French for what they do to their kings and queens.
<If the text reads a bit odd, read the book and you will know why.
It's anyway not going to take more than a few hours>
Picture Credits:
- Cover Picture: Fiesta en la Madriguera – A film by Manolo Caro