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Dengue Boy

by Michel Nieva

Narrator India Jean-Jacques

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Length 5 hours 6 minutes

Language English

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“Best described with comparisons, Dengue Boy feels like the strangest parts of Phillip K Dick – all the things that didn’t make it into Blade Runner – combined with the glorious unsubtlety of The Substance’s final act (if you know, you know). Add in influences as wide ranging as Lovecraft and Borges and you’re left with a book stuffed to the brim with provoking ideas and brilliantly shocking swings in tone. If you need convincing, just read the first chapter, which was such an emphatic declaration of intent it made me burst out with gleeful laughter. Simply incredible.”
— Joe • Readings

Summary

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.

Fiction Science Fiction