Fever Dream

Author: Schweblin, Samanta, McDowell, Megan

Latin America

Published on 5 October 2017 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 160 pages
128 x 180 x 18 | 136g

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017Tightly 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 AnimalA young woman named Amanda lies dying in a remote Argentinian hospital. A boy named David sits beside her. Shes not his mother. Hes not her child.

At Davids 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 Schweblins 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