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.
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 the perfect title for this book. The entire book is one long fever dream, barely taking the time to take a breath.
There were many HUH? moments because it's such a delirious ride. I admittedly ended it feeling this way as well. I understand what happened for the most part but some of the smaller details were lost on me. The details are lost on Amanda, the young mother in the hospital, and are therefore often lost on the reader. With only a young boy named David (who may or may not be "real" or who she thinks he is) to guide her to which details are important or not, we as readers are equally reliant on him. I felt by the end of this that I was Amanda, lost in a dizzying fever dream.
Definitely a strange little book and certainly not for everyone, but I liked this. I think?
3.5 Stars
There were many HUH? moments because it's such a delirious ride. I admittedly ended it feeling this way as well. I understand what happened for the most part but some of the smaller details were lost on me. The details are lost on Amanda, the young mother in the hospital, and are therefore often lost on the reader. With only a young boy named David (who may or may not be "real" or who she thinks he is) to guide her to which details are important or not, we as readers are equally reliant on him. I felt by the end of this that I was Amanda, lost in a dizzying fever dream.
Definitely a strange little book and certainly not for everyone, but I liked this. I think?
3.5 Stars
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