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Dengue boy : a novel / Michel Nieva ; translation, Rahul Bery.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.424.I357 I5413 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nieva, Michel, 1988- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Infancia del mundo. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mutation (Biology)--Fiction.
- Mutation (Biology).
- Viruses--Fiction.
- Viruses.
- Corporations--Fiction.
- Corporations.
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- Climatic changes.
- Argentina--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Science fiction.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Cyberpunk fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2025.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- "A cyberpunk fever-dream of climate catastrophe: the full-length fiction debut from one of the boldest new voices in Argentinian literature, thrillingly translated by Rahul Bery. After the last Antarctic icecaps melt, calamity follows. Landscapes are radically transformed, diseases mutate and spread with unprecedented speed, and, in response, forms the ghastly 'virofinance' exchange--a market for corporations to profit from pandemics and global suffering. It's in this grim near-future of 2197, where words such as 'winter' and 'cold' have no meaning, the Dengue Child grows. The monstrous humanoid mosquito emerges in newly tropical Argentina, carrying its namesake virus and despairing of its own existence. Bullies brutalize the child until a violent eruption of revelation and transformation, shockwaves of which will extend far beyond the schoolyard into a society full of terrors and wonders enabled and exposed by climate collapse. Powerful telepathic pebbles from the bowels of the earth, sought after by smugglers, seem to hold a volatile, primordial wisdom. The meager remaining glaciers are harvested for skating rinks on luxury cruises. And the youth obsess over an immersive, addictive video game that presents a virtual world far more attractive than reality."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translation of: La infancia del mundo.
- ISBN:
- 9781805220589
- 1805220586
- OCLC:
- 1449909527
- Publisher Number:
- 90102051247
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