Unfortunately, this book wasn't for me. I thought I would enjoy it since I'm a big fan of both speculative fiction and Borges (to which this book is trying to very openly compare itself), but I found it quite empty and unable to achieve what it was set out to do.
I appreciated the parallels with Latin American issues and the message of "capitalism is bad and pointless" but I felt like it was a bit of an empty message, used to try to justify pindaric flights that were too self-serving to be compelling.
I liked the genderfluidity of Dengue but apart from that I couldn't find anything distinguishable in any of the characters we followed. Also, I don't like the "Lord of the Flies"/"children are inherently evil and will kill each other" narrative; it always feels like a cop-out.