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Books Down the Rabbit Hole

Through the book, there are these reflections about how we construct our vision of reality with ideas that are really wasted. Tired clichés. It happens the same with Africa. How to construct the idea of it? “Poor, only horrible people"—it’s like that. It’s a provocative joke.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New Statesman Juan Pablo Villalobos New Statesman 2011
By using a child’s voice to observe Yolcaut’s kingdom, his atrocities and escalating paranoia, Villalobos conjures a fantastical world—a nightmarish inversion of Alice in Wonderland…

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Independent Lucy Popescu The Independent 2011

We have here a control over the material which is so tight it is almost claustrophobic (and novelists really like constricted spaces). It is just as well it is only 70-odd pages long. I mean that as a compliment.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Guardian Nicholas Lezard The Guardian 2011