PositiveWorld Literature TodayLittle Eyes echoes the urgent, clarified style of Schweblin’s earlier works, helped by the return of Megan McDowell as translator ... Concision is Schweblin’s strength, and what she sacrifices in depth is more than made up for by the ecumenical scope of the book ... a coherent theme of dread emerges, in which we, as mere viewers, are powerless to intervene ... the deeper narrative woven by these superficial episodes is bleak and merciless. Little Eyes is, at heart, a cautionary tale.
