Fever Dream (Spanish: Distancia de rescate, lit. 'rescue distance') is a 2014 novel by Samanta Schweblin. An English translation by Megan McDowell was published in 2017 through Riverhead Books. [1] The novel has elements of psychological fiction and takes inspiration from the environmental problems in Argentina. [2]

2014年10月2日 · 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.

2018年3月6日 · 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.

2017年1月12日 · Rulfo's novel is half surreal tale of the afterlife and half political critique: Comala, where it's set, is a town of the dead because Pedro Páramo, its sole landowner, starved his tenants to...

2025年2月23日 · Fever Dream is a novel written by Samanta Schweblin that centers around a woman named Amanda who is on the brink of death. The story unfolds as she finds herself in a hospital bed, constantly questioning whether her child is safe, while memories and hallucinations blend into one another.

2017年1月10日 · Shortlisted 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.

2017年1月4日 · The Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin’s brilliantly structured and frightening novel “Fever Dream” is now available in English, translated by Megan McDowell.

First published in Spanish as Distancia de rescate in 2014, Fever Dream is a short novel by Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin. Translated by Megan McDowell and published in English in 2017, the novel has received critical acclaim, including a place on the 2017 Booker International Prize Shortlist and the Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.

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 ...