Dengue Boy
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Dengue Boy: 'Smart, funny and brutal' Mariana Enríquez


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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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781805220596
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Serpent's Tail
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1805220594
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: 'Smart, funny and brutal' Mariana Enríquez


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