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.