Description
'It's a total mind-wrecker' - Max Porter
'The book I wish I had written' - Lisa Taddeo
'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?
'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
About the Author
Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and her stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Good and Evil and Other Stories is her third collection.
Reviews
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
A book to read in one frantic sitting - bold, uncanny and utterly gripping * The Observer *
An unnerving read, straddling the realms of the supernatural and of Argentina's dark recent history * Financial Times *
Terrifying and brilliant . . . Dangerously addictive -- Chris Power, The Guardian
This daring, ambiguous thriller is an apocalyptic lamentation for our world in free fall, a place in which nothing and no one, not even a child or a horse in a field, is safe * Irish Times *
Explosive . . . delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense * Economist *
Dazzling, unforgettable, and deeply strange. I've never read anything like it * Evening Standard *
Exceptionally written . . . a superlative work of the imagination, resonant, beguiling and truly memorable * The Spectator *
The sort of book that makes you look under the bed last thing at night and sleep with the light on * Daily Mail *
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
Book Information
ISBN 9781037412035
Author Samanta Schweblin
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Macmillan
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 140g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 134mm * 14mm
