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Fever Dream

by Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream

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ISBN13: 9780399184598
ISBN10: 0399184597
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2018 Tournament of Books Winner

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"Genius." Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." Vanity Fair

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize!

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.

Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story, and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

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"A taut, exquisite page-turner vibrating with existential distress and cumulative dread…. While the book resides in the realm of the uncanny, its concerns are all too real. Once the top blows off Schweblin’s chest of horrors, into which we’d been peeking through a masterfully manipulated crack, what remains is an unsettling and significant dissection of maternal love and fear, of the devastation we’ve left to the future, and of our inability to escape or control the unseen and unimagined threats all around us. In a literary thriller of the highest order, Schweblin teases out the underlying anxieties of being vulnerable and loving vulnerable creatures and of being an inhabitant of a planet with an increasingly uncertain future." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

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"Mesmerizing… Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint… Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point." Washington Post

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"Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed." Marie Claire

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"I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows…. [T]he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether." Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

About the Author

Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Vice, among other publications. She lives in Chile.

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Tisa , May 01, 2017 (view all comments by Tisa)
"'It happens, Amanda. We're in the country, there are sown fields all around us. People come down with things all the time, and if they survive they end up strange.'" This incredible little novel will scare you, make you think twice about spraying crops, and hold you glued to your seat. Take a couple of hours and read it straight through as it was intended. There are no chapters to break the momentum--it's relentless. I read it twice to be able to fully follow the speakers and their stories. I could easily read it a third time and glean even more. Lead in the water in Flint, MI is a similarly terrifying situation and very real. This environmental disaster could happen anywhere.

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ISBN:
9780399184598
Binding:
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Publication date:
01/10/2017
Publisher:
RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM
Pages:
192
Height:
1.00IN
Width:
4.90IN
Author:
Samanta Schweblin
Translator:
Megan McDowell
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