Physical kentukis, which come in models from mole to dragon, are owned by a “keeper” but operated virtually by a “dweller,” someone anywhere in the world who has purchased the right to control the kentuki remotely and, through the cameras in its eyes, observe the keeper. While the novel’s title immediately evokes the discomfort that being watched can provoke, for Emilia the shuttered eyelids represent the possibility that someone might trust her enough to let down their guard, and let her do the same.Įmilia is surveying not a friend, or a lover, or her distant son, but the synthetic eyelashes of her kentuki, a motorized stuffed animal that has enthralled people around the near-future world that Schweblin, the Argentine author of “Mouthful of Birds” (2008) and “Fever Dreams” (2014), conjures.
“It had been a very long time since she had seen anyone with their eyes closed,” she observes not since her son, a banker based in Hong Kong, made his last reluctant visit home. 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.There’s a gut-clenchingly tender moment midway through “Little Eyes,” Samanta Schweblin’s deft and ineffably creepy new novel, when Emilia, a lonely Peruvian widow, gazes on a pair of closed eyes. 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.
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