Little Eyes
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
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Little Eyes
Narrated by:
Cassandra Campbell
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
Summary
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize
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 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.
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Reviews
Ingenious... An artful exploration of solitude and empathy in a globalised world
Disturbing... Schweblin enjoys hovering just above the normal. Inspired by Samuel Beckett, she is interested in exposing absurdities.
Little Eyes makes for masterfully uneasy reading; it’s a book that burrows under your skin.
A slim volume as expansive and ambitious as an epic.
A timely meditation on humanity and technology.
Little Eyes provides us with a powerful examination of the underlining disparities that persist. It is a fable for a society in which we are all made to feel simultaneously exposed and anonymous, connected and alone.
Little Eyes acts as a clear warning that every digital decision we make has consequences... It does feel alarmingly real.
[A] dazzling inquiry into loneliness and connection.
A dark story, beautifully translated by Megan McDowell, it leaves the reader in a world from which there is no escape, as it questions our growing complicity in social media and neocapitalist technologies.
Creepy as hell.
The understatedly arch tone is well served by Megan McDowell’s translation, which is so slick that one hardly seems to be reading a translated work.
'Daring and original... Schweblin deftly explores both the loneliness and casual cruelty that can inform our attempts to connect in this modern world.'
A spookily prescient vision of human isolation both assuaged and deepened by inscrutable, glitch-prone tech
A dystopian novel that is necessary, hypnotic, irresistible.
Schweblin unspools a disquieting portrait of the dark sides of connectivity and the kinds of animalistic cyborgs it can make of us, as we walk through barriers that even spirits cannot cross.
Little Eyes will certainly feature in future lists of the ten best novels of this century. (Luisgé Martín, author of The Same City)
A nuanced exploration of anonymous connection and distant intimacy in our heavily accessible yet increasingly isolated lives.
An intensely clever title that will have you examining your own relationship to the internet. (Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters)
This has a propulsive, Dave Eggers-ish readability.
Little Eyes is a short, powerful, disquieting novel.
Of a piece with Schweblin’s elliptical Fever Dream . . . this jittery eye-opener will appeal to a wide range of readers.
An eerie sense of disjuncture characterises the entire reading experience . . . an indicator of the deep, discomforting place it has made itself under my skin.
Schweblin unfurls an eerie, uncanny story . . . Daring, bold, and devious.
Her most unsettling work yet – and her most realistic.
A master of the unsettling.
Fiendishly readable
Little Eyes is strange and addictive, an experience made even more frightening by how familiar this feels.
Alluring and unsettling in equal measure.
She has a gift for fiction that is pure, original, revelatory.
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