Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin
Translated by Megan McDowell
Synopsis
‘It’s a total mind-wrecker’ – Max Porter, author of Shy
‘The book I wish I had written’ – Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women
‘Utterly gripping’ – The Observer
‘Dazzling’ – Evening Standard
Amanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying feverish and unseeing in her hospital bed, she tries her best to account for how she came to be there. She remembers the lake, the house and the strange woman next door with her unthinkable confession. She remembers the fear of losing her young daughter, Nina. Now she is alone and Nina is gone. At what moment did everything go dark?
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Fever Dream is an unforgettable masterpiece of psychological terror from Samanta Schweblin.
‘I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read . . . I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows’ – Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
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“Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly breathe. It's a total mind-wrecker. Amazing. Thrilling.”Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
“Terrifying and brilliant . . . Dangerously addictive”Chris Power, The Guardian
“I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read . . . I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows”Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“Part modern horror, part love story, this nightmarish novel about a young woman recounting her astonishing story from her death bed covers themes of maternal anxiety and ecological disaster. It will grip and haunt you in equal measure. ”Service95
