Little Eyes

Publisher:
ONEWORLD PUBLICATION
| Author:
Schweblin, Samanta, McDowell, Megan
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
ONEWORLD PUBLICATION
Author:
Schweblin, Samanta, McDowell, Megan
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

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A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale A Guardian & Observer Best Fiction Book of 22 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR Best Books of the Year World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 22 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 22 * A New York Times Notable Book of 22 They’re not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can trust them. They care about you… They’ve infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls: but they also expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society. Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative new novel pulls us into a dark and complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This is our present and we’re living it: we just don’t know it yet. *Little Eyes comes with two different covers, and the cover you receive will be chosen at random*

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A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale A Guardian & Observer Best Fiction Book of 22 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR Best Books of the Year World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 22 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 22 * A New York Times Notable Book of 22 They’re not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can trust them. They care about you… They’ve infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls: but they also expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society. Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative new novel pulls us into a dark and complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This is our present and we’re living it: we just don’t know it yet. *Little Eyes comes with two different covers, and the cover you receive will be chosen at random*

About Author

Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections and two novels, which have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into twenty languages. Her debut novel Fever Dream was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 217, and her short-story collection Seven Empty Houses won the National Book Award for Translated Literature 222. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have won the National Book Award, the O. Henry Prize, the English PEN award and the Premio Valle-Incl¡n, and been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She lives in Chile.

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