{"product_id":"michel-nieva-dengue-boy-9780771012389","title":"Dengue Boy","description":"A cyberpunk fever-dream of climate catastrophe: the full-length fiction debut from one of the boldest new voices in Argentinian literature, thrillingly translated by Rahul Bery. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the last Antarctic icecaps melt, calamity follows. Landscapes are radically transformed, diseases mutate and spread with unprecedented speed, and, in response, forms the ghastly \"virofinance\" exchange--a market for corporations to profit from pandemics and global suffering. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's in this grim near-future of 2272, where words such as \"winter\" and \"cold\" have no meaning, the Dengue Child grows. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe monstrous humanoid mosquito emerges in newly tropical Argentina, carrying its namesake virus and despairing of its own existence. Bullies brutalize the child until a violent eruption of revelation and transformation takes place, shockwaves of which will extend far beyond the schoolyard into a society full of terrors and wonders enabled and exposed by climate collapse. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowerful telepathic stones from the bowels of the earth, sought after by smugglers, seem to hold a volatile, primordial wisdom. The meager remaining glaciers are harvested for skating rinks on luxury cruises. And the youth obsess over an immersive, addictive video game that presents a virtual world far more attractive than reality. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tradition of Kafka, Cronenberg, and Philip K. Dick, Michel Nieva's brilliant, hilarious, and demented Dengue Boy draws on manga, body horror, and gaucho-punk science fiction to tell a delirious, frenetic, singular story about the ravages of capitalism and what hope might exist, if any, for revenge and rebirth.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53610660725078,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780771012389_1.jpg?v=1778593626","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/michel-nieva-dengue-boy-9780771012389","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}