by Juan Pablo Villalobos
The story is told from a little boys perspective about his father's life as a gang member. And how much he wants a pygmy hippopotamus. The boy believes he is a samurai and also wants a sword.The heart warming ending and the story itself is great, think of a seven year old trying to explain how heads...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Description: “A brief and majestic debut.” —Matías Néspolo, El MundoTochtli 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 T...
Disturbing and entertaining. The perspective of an imaginative seven-year-old boy lightens up this story in the same way Nadsat lightens A Clockwork Orange.
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