Publisher's Synopsis
AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK TO CATCH YOUR IMAGINATION IN 2025
Michel Nieva goes all out with this steampunk book ... Smart, funny and brutal. -- Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night
Wonderfully weird and amazing! ― New Scientist, Best New Science Fiction 2025
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.
Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery
