Dengue Boy: 'Smart, funny and brutal' Mariana Enríquez
Autor Michel Nieva Traducere de Rahul Beryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781805220589
ISBN-10: 1805220586
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1805220586
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Michel Nieva is an Argentinian writer based in New York, where he teaches at NYU. A Granta Best Young Spanish-Language Novelist and also a 2022 O. Henry Award Winner, Nieva has published short stories and essays. Dengue Boy is his debut novel.Rahul Bery translates from Spanish & Portuguese to English, and is based in Cardiff. He has translated books by David Trueba, Afonso Cruz, Simone Campos and Vicente Luis Mora and his translations have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Stinging Fly, Granta and elsewhere. His translation of David Trueba's Rolling Fields was shortlisted for the 2021 TA First Translation Prize.
Recenzii
Wonderfully weird and amazing!
A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanity's unerring instinct for self-sabotage.
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's no question as to whether our hero is righteous
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's both utterly engrossing and unrepentantly gross-out
In Dengue Boy 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's a part body horror, part cyberpunk novel of a world being squeezed for its last resources.
Michel Nieva goes all out with this steampunk book ... Smart, funny and brutal
Fast-moving, funny and horrifying. And with a deceptively multi-layered plot, it's also clever enough to have earned comparisons to such modern masters as J.G. Ballard and Franz Kafka ... With cartoonishly detailed worldbuilding meeting a punk sensibility, this is an absurd and unpredictable ride
Unsettling and essential ... A brilliantly strange new novel
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.
The book of a genius
A psychedelic fever dream
Michel Nieva's Dengue Boy is a wild book, surprising on every page; insightful, funny and grotesque. A unique hybrid of body horror, absurdist satire and dystopian science fiction, this novel critiques capitalism and colonialism with an entrancing humorous tone and a gruesome plot.
An incandescent imagination, illuminating the strangeness of all that surrounds us with a precise balance of tension and tenderness
Dengue Boy 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
Nieva's English-language debut boils both into a hallucinogenic cocktail about the end of one world and the beginnings of another . . . [Dengue Boy is] a hyperkinetic, audacious grotesquerie about metamorphosis and the inevitability of change.
A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanity's unerring instinct for self-sabotage.
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's no question as to whether our hero is righteous
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's both utterly engrossing and unrepentantly gross-out
In Dengue Boy 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's a part body horror, part cyberpunk novel of a world being squeezed for its last resources.
Michel Nieva goes all out with this steampunk book ... Smart, funny and brutal
Fast-moving, funny and horrifying. And with a deceptively multi-layered plot, it's also clever enough to have earned comparisons to such modern masters as J.G. Ballard and Franz Kafka ... With cartoonishly detailed worldbuilding meeting a punk sensibility, this is an absurd and unpredictable ride
Unsettling and essential ... A brilliantly strange new novel
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.
The book of a genius
A psychedelic fever dream
Michel Nieva's Dengue Boy is a wild book, surprising on every page; insightful, funny and grotesque. A unique hybrid of body horror, absurdist satire and dystopian science fiction, this novel critiques capitalism and colonialism with an entrancing humorous tone and a gruesome plot.
An incandescent imagination, illuminating the strangeness of all that surrounds us with a precise balance of tension and tenderness
Dengue Boy 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
Nieva's English-language debut boils both into a hallucinogenic cocktail about the end of one world and the beginnings of another . . . [Dengue Boy is] a hyperkinetic, audacious grotesquerie about metamorphosis and the inevitability of change.