Thousands of Eyes

by Maximiliano Barrientos, Thomas Bunstead (Translator)

Bolivia, 1970 a man is on the run from the cult that murdered his father. Obsessed with pure velocity, they want his car for a sinister ritual - but the man wants only violent revenge.

Twenty years later, a teenage boy in Santa Cruz is haunted by the voices of car crash victims, including that of his older brother. As he seeks answers about his brother's death, he notices bizarre changes in his body - and fears he may somehow be involved in the sect's plans.

In this wild, hallucinatory novel, bodies fuse with machines and trees sprout spark plugs like fruit. Blending pulp, sci-fi and body horror into its own twisted form, Thousands of Eyes accelerates towards a vision of an apocalyptic future, in which the only human value left is the will to survive.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication January 28, 2027

About the author

Maximiliano Barrientos nació en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, en 1979. Es uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más relevantes de su generación. Sus artículos sobre literatura, música y cine, así como algunas de sus crónicas, han aparecido en las principales revistas y suplementos culturales de Bolivia. En 2009, su libro de relatos Diario (2009) recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Santa Cruz. Sus dos primeros libros, Los daños (2006) y Hoteles (2007), fueron revisados, corregidos y transformados para convertirse en los volúmenes Fotos tuyas cuando empiezas a envejecer y Hoteles, publicados por Periférica en 2011 con gran éxito de crítica y en vías de traducción a diversas lenguas.

Reviews

[Looking for Line · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thanks to Netgalley and Pushkin Press for the ARC.

Thousand of Eyes had all the ingredients for something I could have absolutely loved : heavy metal, bizarre cult rituals and body horror... But the execution left me feeling more confused than captivated.
The pacing was great, it made it hard to put the book down and a cult worshipping speed?! Very original premise. I just wished that that aspect had been more explored in depth. Unfortunately, everything felt very confusing and the different POVs through different timelines didn't help.