Fever Dream: A Novel

ISBN: 0399184597

Author: Schweblin, Samanta

Condition: Used

"Genius." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"Samanta Schweblins electric story reads like a Fever Dream." -Vanity FairShortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize!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. Shes 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.