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Festa No Covil (2010)

by Juan Pablo Villalobos(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Fiction

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Companhia das Letras

review 1: Peter Abrahms expresses the theme in Down the Rabbit Hole is that one should fight to serve justice to those who deserve it. Ingrid does this when she decides to investigate the murder she sees instead of ignoring it. This book takes place in Echo Falls and is set in the present. Echo falls is a small town where anything could happen and everyone would know about it except murder. The protagonist in this novel is Ingrid Levin Hill. She is the 13 year old soccer star and actress of Echo Falls. Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time or at least her shoes are. She gets tangled up in the murder case of Katherine Kovac, or Cracked up Katie. Ingrid is taking on soccer season, schoolwork, being the lead in their school play, Alice in Wonderland, and now she gets swamped ... morewith this murder. As Ingrid gets more and more curious she decides to do the right thing and try to find the killer of Katherine Kovac. I liked this book. It had a lot of interesting scenes and it always kept me guessing who the killer was. I thought this book was very exciting and made me take a second and soak all of the information in. The theme in this story is important because it teaches you to always do the right thing. Ingrid does the right thing even though it effects you negatively in some ways. This is a achieved by other people in the real world like when cops chase down criminals and when people give money to homeless people. It effects you negatively in some ways like you don't have the money anymore or like Ingrid puting your life in danger to serve justice. No matter what the circumstance you must always do it because it’s right. Ingrid kept investigating even though she knew she could have been harmed because she “knew too much”. It also teaches you that if you do good things for people good things will happen to you. Ingrid does a good thing for Katherine because she deserved justice and justice was served. I would recommend this to anyone who loves a good mystery and really wants to think over what they are reading.
review 2: Down the Rabbit Hole is a novella by Mexican writer Juan Pablos Villalobos. Originally published as Fiesta en la madriguera, it was translated into English by Rosalind Harvey. No less than “The Googles” illustrious Translator informs me that the Spanish language title translates to “Party in the burrow.” I rather prefer that “translation” over that given to English by the actual translator. ¿But maybe I just leave that up to Miss Rosalind?This story is sordid, so says the narrator, a precocious kid we’ll call Rabbit. His father, we’ll call him Snake, is a macho drug lord[*] devoted to his precious son. Surprisingly, Snake creates a wholesome environment, as wholesome as any drug lord can create. The little bunny is sheltered and wealthy; his comfortable existence made possible inside a fiercely protected burrow guarded by a select warren of servile minions-guards and tutors. Most of what Rabbit knows he learns through books, tutors and attentive observation. He knows little of the real world outside. Rabbit portrays no suspicions and reveals no experience of danger. Every whim is an indulgence of his own unguarded interests revealed with wonderment of novel specimens and portrayed as innocence. Rabbit’s life is an almost ideal environment.Rabbit as a character is tight and mesmerizing; his thoughts are polarizing and attractive. The author, Villalobos, holds readers wrapped, suspended and frozen only to launch twisting insights of fading innocence. For example, the French are most admirable because they not only invented the guillotine, they also brought civility to the act of beheading by catching severed heads in a bucket. Or did you know that hats are a fashion necessity and a dying standard which modern humanity fails to uphold? And did you realize you cannot create a corpse by only shooting holes through a persons hair? In time life in the burrow looses it’s innocence to become repugnant, fascinating and devastating.* Now you may be thinking this novella is another tired entry in a wasted narcoliteratura genre, but it’s NOT. Nope. This is boundary pushing art. This is what the introduction tells us. ¡I don’t make these things up! less

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