A person who can control the wheels, make noises and explore their surroundings using the cameras in the eyes – from a connected tablet anywhere in the world. Not a real teeny tiny person, but one who has been randomly paired with it. They even have working eyes that blink, little animal grunts, feathers and torsos that move, and wheels on the bottom of the toy to allow them to trundle around.īut that’s not all they do. You can get them in the form of different cute and colorful animals, from rabbits to crows and dragons.
It’s technologically advanced, but not so much so that it feels out of reach – ten more years, perhaps? Kentucki toys are the new ‘must-have’ tech of the moment, and very reminiscent of Furbies. 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.And from then on, the world is made clear to us. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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, Refinery29, and Thrillist A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale.
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