Fever Dream

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 *
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
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

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.

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