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 werird fiction, sci-fi, pulp and horror. Thousands of Eyes is his first work to be translated into English.



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 don't know if there are such bold writers in Latin America



I read Maximiliano Barrientos like a prophet. His books are a door to a literature that does not yet exist because he is creating it. If he set up a cult I would give him all my possessions



A baroque wonder



This novel is pure vertigo