Binding: Paperback
Description: Longlisted FOR THE 2020 MAN Booker International Prize A NEW YORK Times Notable BOOK OF THE YEAR" Her most unsettling work yet and her most realistic." - - New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times O The Oprah Magazine NPR Vulture Bustle Refinery 29, and Thrillist 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 in 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.
Title: Little Eyes
Author(s): Schweblin Samanta
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780525541370
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/4/2021