Fever Dream

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
'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.

About the author

Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections and two novels, which have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into twenty languages. Her debut novel Fever Dream was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017, and her short-story collection Seven Empty Houses won the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2022. 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 and The Paris Review. She lives in Chile.

Summary

Tightly wound and full of dread, Fever Dream is a chilling tale of maternal love and environmental catastrophe

Report

'A shifting, unstable fantasia inspired by fears about GM and environmental degradation'
Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Samanta Schweblin
• Assisted by: Megan McDowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781786072382
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-238-2
• No. of pages: 151
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 180 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Argentinische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / General, Latin America, Argentina, Fiction in translation, Horror & ghost stories, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Classic horror & ghost stories, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Toxicology (non-medical)