Down the Rabbit Hole Mary Costello

Down the Rabbit Hole Mary CostelloShortlisted 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

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touch upon the nature of love

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As the bust takes its toll

The physicality of these temporary utopias

For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood

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A published poet and critic

Translated by Charlotte Coombe

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