Fever Dream

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Samanta Schweblin

“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and ReputationsA 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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Author

Samanta Schweblin

Pages

192

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2017-01-10

ISBN

0399184619 9780399184611

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""I had to sleep with the lights on after finishing this one. Absolutely terrifying." - Emily C"

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"The quick dialog made the conversation intense at times however I unfortunately could not follow along if what was happening. A boy, David, having a conversation with a dying woman requesting her to share her memories of both her daughter Nina and the Boy’s mother Carla. All in all confusing and unproductive from what I could follow. "

Chena

"Reading this book fills you with a sense of dread. It's like waking up from a dream and not being able to remember it, but having that "bad feeling" that it was a scary dream. I devoured the book in one sitting. The ending made my heart jerk a little."

Darya 🖤

"didn’t really like this lol."

• nova •

"I didn’t really like it. This was the only way it would let me leave a comment. It was a lot of rambling with no real story or plot."

Brooke Gross-Gilbert

"A chilling tapestry of illness, memories, and parental instinct. As surreal and disjointed as it’s namesake, Fever Dream is a deeply unsettling portrayal of environmental contamination and the horrific consequences of ignoring nature’s cries for help. Tense, focused, and nightmarish in its rapid similarities to real life. "

Emily

"I want to say I liked it but it was honestly confusing and I still don’t think I understood it. "

Megan Bender

"This novella is really trance-like in its prose, with the main character sounding deeply confused through the story. It sets up many questions and answers none them. It completely leaves you hanging. This is not a book for everyone, some people might think its just dialogue with no purpose, or, in my case, it affected me for days after I put it down. If you are a fan of offbeat, disturbing books then give this a quick read."

Markus Meyer

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Jodie L

"This is a read in one sitting book. Very strange, but I loved it! One of those books where things click after reading. *SPOILER* when I finished reading and remembered Carla saying she would like to have a daughter like Nina.. Then fast forward to “David” in the back of the car.. Left room for interpretation to believe Carla knew what would happen to Amanda and Nina, maybe even lead them to their demise. And who was really reliving this story with Amanda.. "