“Little Eyes” is a cautionary tale of technology and privacy

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“Little Eyes” is the second novel by Samanta Schweblin to be translated into English, and her second to be nominated for the International Booker prize

Riverhead Books; 256 pages; $26. Oneworld; £14.99

The gadgets are controlled not by the owners, but by strangers who have been randomly allocated to a kentuki by a remote server. They can see and hear the kentuki’s surroundings; the owner knows virtually nothing about the person on the other side of the video link. Yet because these bots do not look threatening, owners and controllers alike form relationships with their kentukis with little regard for privacy.

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