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Fever Dream

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INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST • The hallucinatory, terrifying first novel of an international literary star and "genius" (The New Yorker)

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. Part of a new wave of Spanish language horror writers, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

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ISBN9798217010646
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date09/08/26
Pages160

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    2nd read: What a mindfuck. This time it was even more disorienting and oppressive. The loss of control that the protagonist experiences on the plot level is also experienced by the reader, because the text constantly shifts between different time and narrative layers. I think I'll have to read it a third time to really collect my thoughts and basically just understand it. This book is really nasty. 1st read: Incredible. I have never in my life read something like that, and I’m still not even sure what I just read. When I finished this book, I just sat on my bed for minutes and stared perplexed into nowhere with a multitude of obscure feelings.

    Sep 27, 2025

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