Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense. 'This small debut novel packs a mighty, and lingering, punch. Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point.' -Washington Post Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint. 'A spare, hypnotic literary page-turner.' - O, the Oprah Magazine 'Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed' - Marie Claire 'Subtle, dreamy and indelibly creepy.' - The Economist (Best Books of 2017) 'A nauseous, eerie read, sickeningly good.' -Emma Cline, The Girls he genius of Fever Dream 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 a new literary genre altogether.' -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

By the time I finished the book, I couldn't bring myself to look out the windows. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. 'I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it.

'Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream.' - Vanity Fair Schweblin's book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.' - New York Times Book Review 'To call Schweblin's novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true.

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