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Jan 12, 2017 · Samanta Schweblin's debut novel starts as a warped child's game, and evolves into a terrifyingly toxic eco-horror tale in the vein of short-but-creepy Latin American classics like Pedro Páramo.
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Oct 2, 2014 · Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Translator), Ruth Sepp (Translator, Afterword) 3.72. 41,742 ratings6,890 reviews. 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.
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Jan 10, 2017 · A taut, exquisite page-turner vibrating with existential distress and cumulative dread. Schweblin’s English-language debut, translated by the eminently capable McDowell, plays out as a tense, sustained dialogue in an emergency clinic somewhere in the Argentinian countryside between a dying woman named Amanda and her dispassionate interlocutor ...
Jan 4, 2017 · The Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin’s brilliantly structured and frightening novel “Fever Dream” is now available in English, translated by Megan McDowell.
Jan 27, 2017 · Fever Dream is a novel stripped down to its barest elements, all dialogue and atmosphere, and working with only those elements, it manages to create an authentic nightmare.
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 ...
Book Reviews on... Fever Dream: A Novel. by Samanta Schweblin. Recommendations from our site. “What I love about this book is the register. At the start, it is the register that makes it inherently uncanny, unhinging, destabilising. You realise slowly that it’s a conversation between two people—a dying woman and a boy who are talking in a hospital.
