![]() ![]() Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it’s our present and we’re living it we just don’t know it yet. The characters in Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls but they also expose the ugly truth 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 you knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, untraceable. They’re not pets, nor ghosts, nor robots. They’ve infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. I think that it’s a strange yet compelling idea to explore the way in which we act in our increasingly connected world through what is essentially a toy, and while this is something that you might expect in an episode of Black Mirror, it’s not all negative. ![]() ![]() Little Eyes is a novel that I’ve been wanting to read since I first heard about it. ![]()
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