Little Eyes

Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize

They’re not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can trust them. They care about you...

They've infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls – but they also expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society.

From the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative novel pulls us into a dark and complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This is our present and we’re living it – we just don’t know it yet.