The Booker Prizes celebrates the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English, and each month they shine a spotlight on a different book from the Booker Library.
This month, they are celebrating Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes, translated by Megan McDowell, with a comprehensive reading guide and an extract, illuminating interviews with both Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell, an exclusive article by author and Little Eyes fan Vincenzo Latronico about the challenge of writing fiction that truly reflects the role digital technology plays in our lives, as well as a chance to win a copy of the book. Access the Booker Monthly Spotlight today.
We will be sharing the Booker Prizes Monthly Spotlight for you to enjoy each month.
Introducing the Booker Prizes September Monthly Spotlight: Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
Wildly imaginative and timely, Little Eyes explores the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, and the way our digital lives allow us to observe others – and be observed by them.
Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine author who has been nominated for the International Booker Prize three times, with Little Eyes (2020), Mouthful of Birds (2019) and Fever Dream (2017). All three books were translated from Spanish into English by Megan McDowell.
Little Eyes follows the users of little mechanical toy animals – kentukis – as they become a global hit, and explores the voyeurism and exhibitionism inherent in our digital lives.
Five years on from its nomination, our Monthly Spotlight for September includes a comprehensive reading guide and an extract, illuminating interviews with both Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell, an exclusive article by author and Little Eyes fan Vincenzo Latronico about the challenge of writing fiction that truly reflects the role digital technology plays in our lives, as well as a chance to win a copy of the book.
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