A suppository that becomes an ingenious system to control the powerful, a psychedelic bachelor party in Texas, a conspiracy to bring erotic subversion to a religious school, a politician entrenched in a video game or some nuns gambling in a Las Vegas casino. These are some of the main ideas that make up Destiny is a rabbit that gives you orders, the first collection of short stories by the Mexican writer Eduardo Rabasa.

Narrated in the first person, when reading these stories one has the feeling that all of its protagonists have stared into the abyss and are one step away from madness or becoming God. As in his previous books —the novels La suma de los ceros and Cinta negra, also published in Pepitas—, literary classics such as Carroll, Orwell or Swift play in the background, and they are twisted without fear or shame for the sake of the best literature. .

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Of his previous books it has been said:

«Eduardo Rabasa immerses us, in his second novel, in a suffocating world, dominated by excessive ambition. The characters in Black Belt are willing to die and kill for a social promotion that leads nowhere. The lucidity and extremely elegant black humor of this novel reminded me of other memorable social satires, such as those by George Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk and Álex de la Iglesia.”— Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Gatopardo.

"[Black Belt is] a grim reckoning with corporate culture that has allowed sociopathic tendencies to take over professional lives around the world."—Holger Ehling, Buchkultur.

"The Sum of Zeros is not just a brilliant novel: it may be the brilliant novel of our time, a book that captures all the delirium, deceit, and absurdity of a world completely delivered to the dictates of capitalism. Indeed, Eduardo Rabasa has written a grim story, a delirious, boundary-pushing tragedy that is also hilariously funny. If human beings are still reading novels a hundred years from now, they will read The Sum of Zeroes, and they will laugh and cry in equal measure.”—Ben Fountain.