Fever Dream: A Novel
NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX "Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Finalist 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. 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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Fever Dream is a surreal, feverish eco-horror novel that totally nails the creepiness factor. The book centers around a woman and a boy trying to unravel a mysterious illness, with ever-increasing urgency and anxiety. I felt marvelously unsettled when I reached the end. The author did an incredible job of creating a gnawing sense of unease as the story unfolded. I recommend this strange and unnerving read to any lovers of literary horror.
I was confused from the very first page. Maybe it’s because I’m not a mother, or because the way the story was told was so confusing, but I was not scared or in suspense once while reading.
The book is far too short to be so hard to understand. Only part of the story worth following is the bond between Amanda and her daughter Nina. I was in a Fever Dream reading it. If that is the point, that’s genius but definitely not for me.
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