Fever Dream

A Novel

By: Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell - translator

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

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"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.

Apt title for this book

This book was wild. A lot of moving pieces the requires your full attention. Wonder how this would look printed.

I have no idea what this was about

This book received an excellent review on npr but unfortunately I missed something. it's a little hard to follow and I didn't love the narrator.

An amazing book

I think I enjoyed the book for all the reasons that other reviewers didn’t. It resists resolution, it perturbs and frustrates, and allows the reader to bask in uncertainty even as it articulates a very clear message about environmental disasters and their very particular and personal impacts. The translation is very good, I’ve read the book in both Spanish and English and the narrator does a great job of conveying the narrative.

Fever Dreams is confusing because it’s a fever dream.

I liked the book, but just be prepared that you start in the middle of the story and it ends abruptly. It can be confusing and frustrating in parts but that’s by design. It definitely doesn’t deserve these one star reviews I’m seeing. For those left wanting more google Argentina+(the cause of the sickness). If helped me understand what was going on a little more.

very bizarre, but very captivating

I wasn't exactly sure what to expect, I'm not sure I can even tell someone else what they should expect after I've read it, but I did enjoy it. if you're looking for a bit of weird, this is a good short read!

the story was a little confusing at first, but once I got my bearings, it really pulled me in. it was quite disorienting, which I believe is one of the reasons it was written the way it was.

it was easy to differentiate between characters - Huber did a nice job with the voices.