Dengue Boy
Michel Nieva
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK TO CATCH YOUR IMAGINATION IN 2025
'A psychedelic fever dream' ESQUIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025
'A wildly original anti-capitalist satire' GUARDIAN
'A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanity's unerring instinct for self-sabotage' IRISH TIMES
'An incandescent imagination' VALERIA LUISELLI
The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here, Dengue Boy is a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, including his own mother.
As the world spirals to its end, Dengue Boy searches for the meaning of his life and his true origins. Elsewhere, adults exploit the value of pandemics on the Stock Exchange and waste the last of Earth's resources, while their privileged children plug into virtual realities and stream violent video games. For readers of China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enríquez, with joyful, savage flair, Dengue Boy blends body horror and cyberpunk to deliver an extraordinary portrait of a demented future.
Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery
Rezensionen
Michel Nieva goes all out with this steampunk book ... Smart, funny and brutal
Michel Nieva'
Wonderfully weird and amazing!
The book of a genius
A part human and part mosquito child born from an experiment gone wrong goes on a journey, and a post-post-post capitalist world is on the brink of collapse. Sign me up.
In <i> Dengue Boy</i> by Argentinian writer Michel Nieva (translated by Rahul Bery) the year is 2272, the Patagonian archipelagos are the only place left habitable on Earth and Dengue Boy is a half-humanoid mosquito. It'
Nieva'
<b>A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanity'
A demented fever dream, bilious, splenetic, awash with spilled bodily fluids and shot through with the blackest of humour. Argentine author Nieva, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, makes his English-language debut here, splicing Ballard, Borges and Lovecraft to create an almost unclassifiable piece of work that'
<i>Dengue Boy </i>is a striking reminder of the power of genre fiction to speak truth to power and to vividly reveal the uncomfortable inequalities our society is built on. It mixes plausible biological and technological speculation with cutting satire and imaginatively surreal imagery. Nieva has created a modern masterpiece, and established himself as a key new voice in speculative fiction
A psychedelic fever dream
An incandescent imagination, illuminating the strangeness of all that surrounds us with a precise balance of tension and tenderness
Unsettling and essential ... A brilliantly strange new novel
A wildly original anti-capitalist satire: delightfully whimsical and absurd, but the core drama - capitalism's discontents coming home to roost - couldn't be more realistic, especially as we await the trial of another CEO assassin: Luigi Mangione. Here, in the realm of fantasy at least, there'
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