{"product_id":"fever-dream-isbn-9780399184604","title":"Fever Dream","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Genius.\" \u003cb\u003e—Jia Tolentino, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExperience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.       \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e 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. | “To call Schweblin’s novella \u003cb\u003eeerie and hallucinatory\u003c\/b\u003e is only to gesture at its compact power; the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true.... Schweblin’s book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Samanta Schweblin’s \u003cb\u003eelectric\u003c\/b\u003e story reads like a \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I picked up \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. 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…. [T]he \u003cb\u003egenius \u003c\/b\u003eof \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to \u003cb\u003ea new literary genre altogether\u003c\/b\u003e.” —Jia Tolentino, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A nauseous, eerie read, sickeningly good.\" —Emma Cline, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Subtle, dreamy and indelibly creepy.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003e(Best Books of 2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed” —\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A spare, hypnotic literary page-turner.” —\u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e, the Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing\u003c\/b\u003e... Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint… Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point.” \u003ci\u003e—Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This small debut novel packs a mighty, and lingering, punch.... [A] compact, but explosive, package. Schweblin delivers \u003cb\u003ea skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense\u003c\/b\u003e.... With virtuoso skill, well served in Megan McDowell’s finely textured translation, Schweblin fuses a study in maternal anxiety with an ecological horror story. She refracts both strands through the eerie prism of her narrative, almost as if Henry James had scripted a disaster movie about toxic agribusiness.\" \u003ci\u003e—The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elusiveness takes a terrifyingly creepy form in this dazzling short novel.” \u003ci\u003e—NPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unsettling... [T]he novel represents a \u003cb\u003eperfect \u003c\/b\u003emarriage of form and subject, in which its narrative instability — which is so of the literary moment — viscerally recreates the insecurities of life in the Argentine countryside today.... [Schweblin] has found ways to electrify and destabilize the physical world... [\u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is] the scariest of all things: a ghost story that is, in essence, true.\" \u003ci\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s rare for a book to do exactly what its title says it will do without any caveats or reservations. It’s even more rare for a book to achieve the kind of woozy, elliptical, intimate horror implied by a title like \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. But this debut novel by Argentinian short story writer Samanta Schweblin — translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell — does exactly that.... \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel stripped down to its barest elements, all dialogue and atmosphere, and working with only those elements, it manages to create an authentic nightmare… \u003cb\u003eIf you’re after creeping, insidious, psychologically compelling horror, then you won’t do better\u003c\/b\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An absorbing and inventive tale... Schweblin is a fine mythmaker, singular in her own fantastical artistry.” —\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mesmerizing, frightening... Schweblin's writing, translated from the original Spanish by Megan McDowell, is sparse, precise, but full of looming disquiet. It's an astonishing work from the Latin American author.\" —\u003ci\u003eBroadly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A remarkable accomplishment in literary suspense.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you want to read something that terrifies you and upsets you, and makes you feel like you’re going crazy, yet also makes you feel like you can’t put it down and you never want it to end because you love it so much, this is the book for you…  \u003cb\u003eIt’s some of the most compelling, fantastic writing I’ve ever read\u003c\/b\u003e!” —\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a weird hallucination of a book—reading it feels like an experience, like something that happens to you, as infectious and mysterious and unstoppable and possibly magical as the disease that powers its plot.” —\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is worth reading for its inventiveness alone. Schweblin gives us memorable characters and a haunting parable, all in fewer than 200 short pages.” —\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eA taut, exquisite page-turner\u003c\/b\u003e vibrating with existential distress and cumulative dread.... While the book resides in the realm of the uncanny, its concerns are all too real. Once the top blows off Schweblin’s chest of horrors, into which we’d been peeking through a masterfully manipulated crack, what remains is an unsettling and significant dissection of maternal love and fear, of the devastation we’ve left to the future, and of our inability to escape or control the unseen and unimagined threats all around us. In \u003cb\u003ea literary thriller of the highest order\u003c\/b\u003e, Schweblin teases out the underlying anxieties of being vulnerable and loving vulnerable creatures and of being an inhabitant of a planet with an increasingly uncertain future.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] pulsating debut…Schweblin guides her reader through a nightmare scenario with amazing skill.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The unique style, the quick paced rhythm and the \u003cb\u003eamazingly wise \u003c\/b\u003eand compact storytelling create a special novel that will stay in your mind long after you put this book down.” \u003cb\u003e—Etgar Keret, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Good Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eSamanta Schweblin is a magician\u003c\/b\u003e, and reading her work is an intense, almost physical experience. This \u003cb\u003emind-bending\u003c\/b\u003e book sheds new light—or, rather, new darkness—on the intense power of love in a poisoned world. \u003cb\u003eYou must read it. \u003c\/b\u003ePrepare to be mesmerized, riveted, terrified, and changed.” —\u003cb\u003eHelen Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Bureaucrat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–Juan G\u003cb\u003eá\u003c\/b\u003ebriel Vasquez, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eReputations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a small \u003cb\u003emasterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e, a beautiful and chillingly contemporary book. Every word throbs a kind of wisdom that can only come from a meticulous and fully engaged observation of reality.” —\u003cb\u003eAlejandro Zambra\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMultiple Choice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Documents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Samanta Schweblin will injure you, however safe you may feel.” —\u003cb\u003eJesse Ball\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Set a Fire and Why\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Samanta Schweblin is one of the most promising voices in modern literature.” —\u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “She has a unique, inventive voice, and her stories have this ability to veer off into strange and unexpected territories with sublime grace. I admire and envy this gift.” —\u003cb\u003eDaniel Alarcón\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Night We Walk in Circles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In spare, lucid prose, Schweblin demonstrates again and again that she knows the weight of what is left unsaid in the comings and goings of everyday life. Then, in the turn of a phrase, she forces the reader to shift perspective; she has a gift for sketching comfortable worlds and then disrupting them with images of dark, startling power.” —\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature \u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamanta Schweblin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, W\u003ci\u003eords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She lives in Chile. | \u003ci\u003eThey’re like worms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat kind of worms?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike worms, all over.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the boy who’s talking, murmuring into my ear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am the one asking questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorms in the body?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYes, in the body.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarthworms?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo, another kind of worms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s dark and I can’t see. The sheets are rough, they bunch up under my body. I can’t move, but I’m talking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt’s the worms. You have to be patient and wait. And while we wait, we have to find the exact moment when the worms come into being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause it’s important, it’s very important for us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eI try to nod, but my body doesn’t respond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat else is happening in the yard outside the house? Am I in the yard?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo, you’re not, but Carla, your mother, is. I met her a few days ago, when we first got to the vacation house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Carla doing?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe finishes her coffee and leaves the mug in the grass, next to her lounge chair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat else?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe gets up and walks away. She’s forgetting her sandals, which are a few feet away on the pool steps, but I don’t say anything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy not?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause I want to wait and see what she does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd what does she do?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe slings her purse over her shoulder and walks toward the car in her gold bikini. There’s something like mutual fascination between us, and also at times, brief moments of repulsion; I can feel them in very specific situations. Are you sure these kinds of comments are necessary? Do we have time for this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour observations are very important. Why are you in the yard?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause we’ve just gotten back from the lake, and your mother doesn’t want to come into my house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe wants to save you any trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWhat kind of trouble? I have to go inside anyway, first for some iced tea with lemon, then for the sunscreen. That doesn’t seem like she’s saving me any trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy did you go to the lake?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe wanted me to teach her how to drive, she said she’d always wanted to learn. But once we were at the lake, neither of us had the patience for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is she doing now, in the yard?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe opens the door of my car, gets into the driver’sseat, and digs around in her purse for a while. I swing my legs down off the lounge chair and wait. It’s so hot. 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