Fever Dream

Name: Fever Dream
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781786072382
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★★★★★

3.74 (26,000 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Samanta Schweblin

Translated by: Megan McDowell

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

Tightly wound and full of dread, Fever Dream is a chilling tale of maternal love and environmental catastrophe, from an Argentinian literary star

'The book I wish I had written' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and Animal

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a remote Argentinian hospital. A boy named David sits beside her.

She's not his mother. He's not her child.

At David's ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past, a conversation that opens a chest of horrors. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.

A chilling tale of maternal anxiety and ecological menace, Fever Dream is a modern classic. Samanta Schweblin's unforgettable debut is a prescient warning about our manipulation of the natural world, and an unforgettable exercise in literary suspense.

'A gloriously creepy fable' Guardian, 'Best Fiction of 2017'

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Dimensions: 129 x 180mm
Publication Date: 05 Oct 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781786072382

About Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel Fever Dream was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker Harpers Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires Schweblin lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors and her translations have won the National Book Award the O. Henry Prize the English PEN award and the Premio Valle-Inclán and been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She lives in Chile.