If you want a spookily prescient vision of human isolation, Little Eyes more than fits the briefįor all their limitations, these sinister little pandas, moles, crows and rabbits fly off the world’s shelves. But fail to recharge a kentuki and it dies forever: no second chances. The ‘keeper’, who buys the $279 electronic pet known as a kentuki, doesn’t know the identity of the ‘dweller’, who pays to observe another life from afar and who can move the felt-covered ‘big stiff egg’ around the keeper’s home a bit, like some stair-averse miniature Dalek. Little Eyes imagines a gadget (nothing fancy really, just a plush animal toy with camera and wifi implants) that creates a private but silent connection between its owner anda single, remote watcher. Well, consider the case of this novel by an acclaimed Argentinian-born, Berlin-based writer, first published in Spanish last year. We often hear that science fiction - or ‘speculative’ fiction, as the buffs prefer - can draw premonitory outlines of the shape of things to come.
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