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The characters in Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls but they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it's our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet.   

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE 'Irresistible . . . This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it' THE TIMES 'Fantastic writing . . . a sharp study of a very female torture' GUARDIAN Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself...

'The kind of book you read with one eye closed but can't put down' Leena Norms 'Wry, revolting, witty and wonderful' Emma van Straaten, author of This Immaculate Body A skin-crawling debut that peels back the veil from the institution of marriage and exposes the rot underneath. Bea has just got...

"Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 130. A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had three eyes; two on the sides of her head and a third in the middle of her forehead. Her mother and sisters scorned Little Two Eyes because she was like other people and treated her badly, leaving her only their leftovers to eat...