A fable about social manipulation, about ideals and lies, about fear and violence.

This is a novel about rabbits. Or rather, about a unique rabbit and his definitive impact on the Great Burrow.

This is a novel about the difference between being given a name and choosing one, about the creation of institutions and rituals, about the manipulation of fear, the incitement of hatred, the political promise of happiness, the obsession with security, the dialectical use of pleasure, and the fiction of collective identity.

To some an outcast, to others a dangerous agitator, to all a leader, Rise and Fall of Bam the Rabbit revisits the events that gave rise to the legend of the most important rabbit in the Great Burrow, narrated by his faithful companion Snowflake, who strives to separate myth from reality in a final act of betrayal or sublimated love.

In a powerful and seamless text, Barba adds this moving novel to the animalistic tradition that runs from Aesop to Richard Adams, passing through Orwell's Animal Farm, in an exciting political feast in which many of our most dangerous contemporary inclinations, such as populism and post-truth, are recognized.