Description: A dark, propulsive literary gothic novel that puts a modern twist on Stevenson and Poe, from a thrilling new voice in Latin American horror.
"Impossible to stop reading. It has all the fascinating tension of great literature." -- Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night In this deliriously inventive twist on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Argentine powerhouse Diego Muzzio conjures a haunting story of shattering war trauma and the disturbing proximity of sanity and madness in his English-language debut. In 1920s Edinburgh, war veteran Dr. Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat mentally ill patients whose cases have been rejected by conventional psychiatry. One night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on an unusual new patient: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a remote island in southern Argentina. The sojourn was a disaster, and he returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion. Bradley's fragmentary diary reveals how this rational, disciplined man became the deranged individual brought to the sanatorium. Full of bizarre details and echoes of macabre events, it guides Pierce in his studies of his patients, propelling him into scientific terrain that grows increasingly grotesque. With an ingenious structure that creates doubling and uncertainty at every turn, The Eye of Goliath is a masterfully tense novel that unites classic gothic atmospheres with disturbingly modern psychological horror.Review Quotes: "Impossible to stop reading. It has all the fascinating tension of great literature."
--Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night
--Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender is the Flesh
"When I say that The Eye of Goliath is, instantly, a classic of the gothic tradition, I don't mean at all that it is lugubrious or old-fashioned. Quite the opposite--Diego Muzzio's book is a lively and hair-raising novel of the uncanny. I loved it."
--Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love "A mesmerizing exploration of madness and trauma, brilliantly structured and elegantly written. I loved it."
--Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project "This might be the closest I've come to reading a cursed book, in the best way possible. Truly disturbing. At times it feels like reading a forgotten classic, and at others like something that wasn't meant to be read. It genuinely gave me nightmares."
--Liam Higginson, author of The Hill in the Dark Grove