Little Eyes

by Samanta Schweblin · 2020

In Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin imagines a world where strangers slip into each other’s lives as effortlessly as a neighbor stepping into a living‑room across the globe. From a Hong Kong apartment to a school in Tel Aviv, a tiny, cuddly creature—known as a kentuki—appears in homes, shops and streets, allowing people in Berlin, Bangkok or Buenos Aires to share meals, secrets and moments with strangers they’ll never meet. Schweblin’s narrative weaves together the wonder of these invisible connections and the unsettling darkness they conceal, exposing how intimacy and terror can coexist in our hyper‑linked age. The novel is a haunting, lyrical exploration of love, trust and the eerie cost of a world where everyone is simultaneously near and unknowable.