In this wild, incantatory novel, bodies fuse with machines, trees sprout spark plugs like fruit, and a murderous cult that worships speed plots sinister rituals.In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a teenage boy is haunted by the voices of car crash victims, including his older brother. As he seeks answers about his brother's death, he notices disturbing changes in his body - and fears he may unwittingly be at the centre of the sect's plans.Blending pulp, sci-fi and body horror into its own twisted form, Thousands of Eyes accelerates towards a vision of an apocalyptic future.



Maximiliano Barrientos was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. A writer and university professor, his articles on literature, film and music have been published widely in literary journals and magazines. His fiction debut, the story collection Diario, received the Santa Cruz National Literature Prize. Since then, in publications in Spain and across Latin America he has honed a unique style drawing on weird fiction, sci-fi, pulp and horror. Thousands of Eyes is his first work to be translated into English.Thomas Bunstead is a translator of leading Spanish-language authors, including Agustín Fernández Mallo, Maria Gainza and Enrique Vila-Matas. He is a former Royal Literary Fellow and among other honours the recipient of the Cercador Prize, the McGinnis-Ritchie Award, an O. Henry Prize, and two PEN Translates Awards. He lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales.



Strange and fascinating... Extravagant and intense. The cult of cars and speed raised to the status of religion, black metal, rituals, Ballard and Mad Max in Bolivia



I read Maximiliano Barrientos like a prophet. If he set up a cult I would give him all my possessions



Exhilarating... Barrientos's propulsive narrative owes its strength to vivid depictions of its characters' inner lives. It's a daring work from an essential Latin American author



Cars have never been so scary... Noirish and tense and stylish... Bizarre and propulsive



A disorienting tale of cosmic horror... At the heart of the novel is a story of grief



A terrifying apocalyptic thriller



A baroque wonder



This novel is pure vertigo