![]() ![]() Even when you want to - even when Schweblin shatters your trust and twists the knife as Little Eyes reaches its absolutely gutting, absolutely haunting conclusions - you just can't look away. You know from the start - from the very first all-too-plausible vignette set in a teenage girl's bedroom in Indiana - that everything will end in fire and blood and tears. If the idea of a human pet, of a Furby with a person inside, was a loose thread idly toyed with on page 1, then Schweblin spends the next 249 slowly pulling at it - expertly unraveling the humans on either end of the kentuki's virtual connection. ![]() ![]() A heavy reality, bounded by life and death at either end and the juicy, exciting, terrifying, horrible middle bit where two human beings connect via the lens of a felt-covered plastic mole with camera eyes. An intensely clever title that will have you examining your own relationship to the internet. Schweblin has a true talent for getting to the centre of our fears and drawing them out. basically gives everyone in the world a Furby with a webcam, and then sits back, smiling, and watches humanity shake itself to pieces. 'Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell, is a chilling and often hilarious book on the pitfalls of living in a highly interconnected world. Which is probably one of the reasons why Little Eyes.reads like such great science fiction. Samanta Schweblin is not a science fiction writer. ![]()
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