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A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood

About the Author

Samanta Schweblin 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. Fever Dream is her first novel. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Paris Review. She lives in Chile.

Reviews

‘A shifting, unstable fantasia inspired by fears about GM and environmental degradation’ Guardian

'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.’ Observer, Best Fiction of 2017

‘An unnerving read, straddling the realms of the supernatural and of Argentina’s dark recent history.’ Financial Times, Best Books of 2017

‘Each layer is soaked in dread, and the dread goes so deep that it works even on the third reading.’ London Review of Books

‘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

'Magnificent.' i newspaper

'Explosive...delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense.' Economist

'Terrifying and brilliant...Dangerously addictive.' Chris Power, Guardian

'Exceptionally written...a superlative work of the imagination, resonant, beguiling and truly memorable.' Spectator

‘Punches far above its weight…The sort of book that makes you look under the bed last thing at night and sleep with the light on.’ Daily Mail

‘Impossible to put down even while it forces you to cower under the sheets, queasy with unnameable fear.’ Metro

‘Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream.’ Vanity Fair

‘Dazzling, unforgettable, and deeply strange. I’ve never read anything like it.’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year