DENGUE BOY : 'SMART, FUNNY AND BRUTAL'/03/IANA ENRIQUEZ PB

AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK TO CATCH YOUR IMAGINATION A psychedelic fever dream ESQUIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK A wildly original anti-capitalist satire GUARDIAN A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanitys 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 Earths resources, while their privileged children plug into virtual realities and stream violent video games. For readers of China Mieville, Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enriquez, 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