![]() Then, someone else buys a card, registers it and connects. ![]() One person buys the kentuki, charges it up and waits. These small robot-like devices, designed to resemble creatures such as pandas, rabbits and moles, are actually internet-controlled machines connecting two people in different parts of the world. Little Eyes is a novel based on a simple premise, that of the invention of toys called ‘kentukis’. ![]() ![]() (I read a library copy of the Spanish-language edition, Kentukis, from Penguin Random House) – Oneworld Publications, translated by Megan McDowell However, like anything that promises to take away all your worries, the truth is another matter, and even if our latest solution to world-weariness has a bright fluffy exterior, there’s still a very fallible, human element inside… This time around, we’re going to explore whether technology could be the answer to our problems (and what with everything that’s happening at present, it seems as good a plan as any). ![]() Well, as we saw last time out, the drugs don’t work, so I suppose we need to find another way to banish our existential ennui – and the latest leg of our expansive global International Booker Prize longlist journey might just provide the answer. ![]()
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