Thousands of Eyes

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 – Mariana Enríquez, author of ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People’
I read Maximiliano Barrientos like a prophet. If he set up a cult I would give him all my possessions – Layla Martínez, author of ‘Woodworm’
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 * Publishers Weekly *
Cars have never been so scary… Noirish and tense and stylish… Bizarre and propulsive * Kirkus Reviews *
A disorienting tale of cosmic horror… At the heart of the novel is a story of grief * Reactor *
A terrifying apocalyptic thriller * CrimeReads *
A baroque wonder * El País *
This novel is pure vertigo * El Diario *

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.

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