This is told from the perspective of a precocious seven-year-old boy, Tochtli, who has a ‘devastating’ memory and lives in the secure compound of his Mexican drug baron father. Tochtli is kind of telling the story of wanting a Liberian pygmy hippopotamus, but we, as adult readers, also see the st...
"Aí o Mazatzin veio trabalhar com a gente, porque o Mazatzin é dos cultos. O Yolcaut diz que os cultos são pessoas muito metidas porque sabem muitas coisas. Sabem coisas das ciências naturais, como que as pombas transmitem doenças nojentas. Também sabem coisas da história, como que os franceses g...
And yet British publishing is, with illustrious exceptions, often unwilling to risk telling these other stories. Subscriptions from readers make our books possible. They also help us approach booksellers, because we can demonstrate that our books already have readers and f...