Thousands of Eyes

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.Thomas Bunstead was born in London in 1982 and lives in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. He has translated leading Spanish-language writers, including Maria Gainza and Enrique Vila-Matas, and won various awards, including an O. Henry Prize and the 2024 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation.

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