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1. US Hardcover: Dengue Boy (ISBN 9781662602658)
- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy, and it ends at 205.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
In 2297, decades after the last polar ice caps have melted, Argentina has been almost entirely submerged and its Pampas plains turned into another Caribbean Sea. The super wealthy enjoy pristine beaches and promises of life on Mars or Jupiter, while the rest struggle with extreme heat and no future. Plus, a handful of international conglomerates rule the world by running pandemic stock exchanges, making clear the direct link between ultracapitalism and human misery. Meanwhile, the youth are escaping into their Pampatone VR machines to play Christians vs. Indians, a game that vividly recreates the 19th century, and the bloody battles for control of the plains, where players choose between being rifle-toting Christian invaders, or Indigenous people fighting against colonialist incursion.
Against this backdrop of massive and inevitable socio-environmental crisis, meet Dengue Boy, a humanoid virus-carrying mosquito whose monstrous appearance makes him cannon fodder for his classmates. But an experience at summer camp helps Dengue Boy come to a shocking realization, not only about his (or rather her) identity, but also about how fragile this global rule of the powerful few really is.
Extraordinarily frenetic and acutely smart, Dengue Boy paints a future as chilling as it is original, as cynical as it is realistic. Michel Nieva follows in footsteps of Kafka, Cronenberg, Philip K. Dick, and Junji Ito to create a universe entirely his own, holding up a mirror to our faces and asking the dire question of what we want our future to really look like.
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2. US Ebook: Dengue Boy: A Novel (ISBN 9781662602641)
- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the description.
- The wrong author is credited to the book. It needs to be Michel Nieva, not “Michael Nieva.”
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3. US Kindle: Dengue Boy: A Novel (ASIN B0D3C1BTH5)
- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the description.
- The wrong author is credited to the book. It needs to be Michel Nieva, not “Michael Nieva.”
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4. US Audible: Dengue Boy: A Novel (ASIN B0DVM11PKP)
- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the description.
- Rahul Bery needs to be added with the Translator role.
- Audible Studios needs to be removed from the Author field.
- The page count is missing. It should be 5.
- The cover art is missing. Available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9... // https://a.co/d/c3FgWUK
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5. Missing Edition: CA Digital Audiobook
TITLE: Dengue Boy
AUTHOR: Michel Nieva
TRANSLATOR: Rahul Bery
NARRATOR: Gary Tiedmann
ISBN-10: 0771012411
ISBN-13: 9780771012419
ASIN: 0771012411
PUBLISHER: Strange Light
DATE PUBLISHED: February 4, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audiobook
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.
After 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.
It’s in this grim near-future of 2272, where words such as “winter” and “cold” have no meaning, the Dengue Child grows.
The 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.
Powerful 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.
In 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.
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo...
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6. Missing Edition: CA Audible
TITLE: Dengue Boy
AUTHOR: Michel Nieva
TRANSLATOR: Rahul Bery
NARRATOR: Gary Tiedmann
ASIN: B0DCCKKFWJ
PUBLISHER: Strange Light
DATE PUBLISHED: February 4, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 5]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/iFt3jJR
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7. UK Ebook: Dengue Boy (ISBN 9781805220596)
- The cover art is incorrectly set to the US art. Correct cover art here: https://serpentstail.com/wp-content/u... // https://serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...
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8. UK Kindle: Dengue Boy (ISBN B0D4SSWDD3)
- Rahul Bery needs to be added with the Translator role.
- The cover art is set to a pre-release version that used a slightly different color scheme. Correct art available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/byQGiGO
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here, Dengue Boy is a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, including his own mother.
As the world spirals to its end, Dengue Boy searches for the meaning of his life and his true origins. Elsewhere, adults exploit the value of pandemics on the Stock Exchange and waste the last of Earth's resources, while their privileged children plug into virtual realities and stream violent video games. For readers of China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enríquez, with joyful, savage flair, Dengue Boy blends body horror and cyberpunk to deliver an extraordinary portrait of a demented future.
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9. UK Paperback: Dengue Boy (ISBN 9781805220589)
- The cover art is set to a pre-release version that used a slightly different color scheme. Correct art available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/990SFYn
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10. Missing Edition: UK Audible
TITLE: Dengue Boy
AUTHOR: Michel Nieva
TRANSLATOR: Rahul Bery
NARRATOR: India Jean-Jacques
ASIN: B0DRPPMYD5
PUBLISHER: W. F. Howes Ltd.
DATE PUBLISHED: April 3, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 8]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: Not yet available, but here’s the publisher placeholder if you want to put it in for now: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7...
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11. Missing Edition: UK Digital Audiobook
TITLE: Dengue Boy
AUTHOR: Michel Nieva
TRANSLATOR: Rahul Bery
NARRATOR: India Jean-Jacques
ISBN-10: 1004195508
ISBN-13: 9781004195503
ASIN: 1004195508
PUBLISHER: W. F. Howes Ltd.
DATE PUBLISHED: April 3, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 8]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: Not yet available
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12. Some Other Audible Edition: Dengue Boy: A Novel (ASIN B0DCCH8ZGT)
- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the description.
- The invalid “Rahul Bery – Translator” author page needs to be removed from this edition and deleted from the site. Rahul Bery needs to be added with the Translator role.
- Strange Light needs to be removed from the Author field.
- The page count is missing. It should be 5.
- The cover art is missing. Available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/1VjOdYD