5/26/2023 0 Comments Little eyes book![]() The kentukis are designed to look cute and cuddly, like soft toys: In particular she recognises that social media is both performative and voyeuristic, and so the kentuki allows one user to be watched and the other to do the watching, the twist being that they are randomly connected. In the novel, Schwebiln takes recognisable element of modern technology and joins them up to create the ‘kentuki’. ![]() Whereas the intense uneasiness of Fever Dream was created by an uncertain dialogue in which one of the voices may not even be real, Little Eyes is a much calmer book, presenting us, in third person, a variety of viewpoints from across the globe to demonstrate the interconnectedness of our wi-fi world while at the same time providing us with the disturbing psychological insights which we associate with her work. It’s yet another unsettling glimpse of life as it is in a present that doesn’t quite exist. Little Eyes is the third of Samanta Schweblin’s three books (translated as usual by Megan McDowell) to be long-listed for the International Booker Prize. ![]()
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