Little eyes / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell.

By:

Schweblin, Samanta [author. ]

Contributor(s):

McDowell, Megan [translator. ]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Oneworld Publications ; 2020Description: 241 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781786078612 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

23 863.7 SCH 016423

Contents:

ntro -- Title Page -- South Bend -- Lima -- Oaxaca -- Antigua -- Umbertide -- Lima -- Barcelona -- Oaxaca -- Zagreb -- Antigua -- Beijing-Lyon -- Umbertide -- Lima-Erfurt -- Antigua -- Zagreb-Cartagena -- Buenos Aires -- Oaxaca -- Umbertide -- Lima-Erfurt -- Antigua -- Zagreb -- Vancouver -- Umbertide -- Oaxaca -- Antigua-Honningsvåg -- Lima-Erfurt -- Sierra Leone-Hong Kong -- Umbertide -- Zagreb-Surumu -- Oaxaca -- Antigua-Honningsvåg -- Zagreb-Surumu -- Lima-Erfurt -- Umbertide -- Oaxaca -- Copyright Page.

Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for feet, and are connected to an anonymous global server. Owners of kentukis have the eyes of a stranger in their home and a cute squeaking pet following them; or you can be the kentuki and voyeuristically spend time in someone else's life, controlling the creature with a few keystrokes. Through kentukis, a jaded Croatian hustler stumbles into a massive criminal enterprise and saves a life in Brazil, a lonely old woman in Peru becomes fascinated with a young woman and her louche lover in Germany, and a kid with no mother in Antigua finds a new virtual family and experiences snow for the first time in Norway. These creatures can reveal the beauty of connection between farflung souls - but they also expose the ugly humanity of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love and marvelous adventure, but what happens when the kentukis pave the way for unimaginable terror?"--

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	863.7 SCH 016423 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016423

Originally published in Spanish, and in a slightly different form, as Kentukis by Literatura Random House, Barcelona in 2018. --t.v.page

"A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for feet, and are connected to an anonymous global server. Owners of kentukis have the eyes of a stranger in their home and a cute squeaking pet following them; or you can be the kentuki and voyeuristically spend time in someone else's life, controlling the creature with a few keystrokes. Through kentukis, a jaded Croatian hustler stumbles into a massive criminal enterprise and saves a life in Brazil, a lonely old woman in Peru becomes fascinated with a young woman and her louche lover in Germany, and a kid with no mother in Antigua finds a new virtual family and experiences snow for the first time in Norway. These creatures can reveal the beauty of connection between farflung souls - but they also expose the ugly humanity of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love and marvelous adventure, but what happens when the kentukis pave the way for unimaginable terror?"--

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