Wonderfully weird and amazing! * New Scientist, Best New Science Fiction 2025 * A rip-roaring satire of late capitalism and humanity's unerring instinct for self-sabotage. * Irish Times * A wildly original anti-capitalist satire: delightfully whimsical and absurd, but the core drama - capitalism's discontents coming home to roost - couldn't be more realistic, especially as we await the trial of another CEO assassin: Luigi Mangione. Here, in the realm of fantasy at least, there's no question as to whether our hero is righteous * Guardian * A demented fever dream, bilious, splenetic, awash with spilled bodily fluids and shot through with the blackest of humour. Argentine author Nieva, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, makes his English-language debut here, splicing Ballard, Borges and Lovecraft to create an almost unclassifiable piece of work that's both utterly engrossing and unrepentantly gross-out * Financial Times * In Dengue Boy by Argentinian writer Michel Nieva (translated by Rahul Bery) the year is 2272, the Patagonian archipelagos are the only place left habitable on Earth and Dengue Boy is a half-humanoid mosquito. It's a part body horror, part cyberpunk novel of a world being squeezed for its last resources. -- Rick O'Shea * Irish Independent, Books to Capture Your Imagination in 2025 * Michel Nieva goes all out with this steampunk book ... Smart, funny and brutal -- Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night Fast-moving, funny and horrifying. And with a deceptively multi-layered plot, it's also clever enough to have earned comparisons to such modern masters as J.G. Ballard and Franz Kafka ... With cartoonishly detailed worldbuilding meeting a punk sensibility, this is an absurd and unpredictable ride * Buzz Magazine * Unsettling and essential ... A brilliantly strange new novel * WIRED * A part human and part mosquito child born from an experiment gone wrong goes on a journey, and a post-post-post capitalist world is on the brink of collapse. Sign me up. * Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2025 * The book of a genius -- Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Montano's Malady A psychedelic fever dream * Esquire - 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 * Michel Nieva's Dengue Boy is a wild book, surprising on every page; insightful, funny and grotesque. A unique hybrid of body horror, absurdist satire and dystopian science fiction, this novel critiques capitalism and colonialism with an entrancing humorous tone and a gruesome plot. * Skinny * An incandescent imagination, illuminating the strangeness of all that surrounds us with a precise balance of tension and tenderness -- Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive Dengue Boy is a striking reminder of the power of genre fiction to speak truth to power and to vividly reveal the uncomfortable inequalities our society is built on. It mixes plausible biological and technological speculation with cutting satire and imaginatively surreal imagery. Nieva has created a modern masterpiece, and established himself as a key new voice in speculative fiction * Fantasy Hive * Nieva's English-language debut boils both into a hallucinogenic cocktail about the end of one world and the beginnings of another . . . [ Dengue Boy is] a hyperkinetic, audacious grotesquerie about metamorphosis and the inevitability of change. * Kirkus Reviews *
