Mexico · Literary fiction
Down the Rabbit Hole
Tochtli lives in the protected, luxurious household of his father, a drug lord. His collections, vocabulary and desire for an unusual animal give his account the apparent concerns of a child, while adult violence keeps entering the edges of what he can understand.
Villalobos turns that narrow viewpoint into a darkly comic portrait of isolation and power. The brevity is part of its force: Mexico’s drug conflict is approached through the strange daily life of a boy who has nearly everything except an ordinary childhood.
“Funny, convincing, appalling”
Ali Smith, The Telegraph, quoted by And Other Stories
Crime; Satire; Childhood; Drug trade; Screen adaptation