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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Samanta Schweblin
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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Samanta Schweblin

Jan 27, 2021
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Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes—translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell—tells interlaced stories in which toys named “kentukis” engage with humans in different households. These kentukis are fussy, purring, tender-eyed robots, controlled by an anonymous random person who bought a card and a tablet elsewhere on the globe in order to live vicariousl…

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