down the rabbit hole

Description

Tennis matches at noon, the demonstrations of popularity in the stands of Barça, vermouths at Turó Park and shopping afternoons at Illa Diagonal: this is the placid existence that businessman Amadeu Conill had to sacrifice in the summer of the year 2007 to save his company and his own life. The rabbit hole tells the tribulations of a pro-hom of the Barcelona bourgeoisie in free fall. Cristian Segura's first novel ironically describes the existential dilemmas and human miseries faced by the protagonist and his family, the Rabbit clan. The work is mirrored in other literary portraits of Catalan society, perhaps the most obvious L'auca del señor Esteve. But more than a generational change or the transformation of a society, The rabbit hole is the story of an era that ends at the pace of a machine; of the globalization machine.