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Little Eyes

by Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes

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ISBN13: 9780525541363
ISBN10: 0525541365



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A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale.

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable.

The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls — but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

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“The Argentine literary sensation — whose work is weird, wondrous, and wise — leads a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon... Samanta Schweblin has perfected the art of pithy literary creepiness, crafting modern fables that tingle the spine and the brain. Her latest book, Little Eyes, distills her uncanny ability to unnerve. Think of it as Black Mirror by way of Shirley Jackson.” O, the Oprah magazine

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“Samanta Schweblin’s writing straddles the unsettling border between the real and the surreal... Her latest novel, Little Eyes, may be her most unsettling work yet — and her most realistic. Its dystopian premise is eerily plausible.” New York Times

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"A nuanced exploration of anonymous connection and distant intimacy in our heavily accessible yet increasingly isolated lives....Capacious, touching, and disquieting, this is not-so-speculative fiction for an overnetworked and underconnected age." Kirkus Review 

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"Readers will be fascinated by the kentuki-human interactions, which smartly reveal how hungry we are for connection in a technology-bent world....this jittery eye-opener will appeal to a wide range of readers." Library Journal 

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"Daring and original....Schweblin deftly explores both the loneliness and casual cruelty that can inform our attempts to connect in this modern world." Booklist 

About the Author

Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel, Fever Dream, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and the collection A Mouthful of Birds, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. She was chosen as one of the twenty-two best writers in Spanish under the age of thirty-five by Granta. She has won numerous prestigious awards throughout the world, and in English her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.


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ISBN:
9780525541363
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Publication date:
05/05/2020
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pages:
256
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.10IN
Author:
Samanta Schweblin
Translator:
Megan McDowell

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