the 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. ' - Vox 'An absorbing and inventive tale. If youre after creeping, insidious, psychologically compelling horror, then you wont do better. Rather, I sensed that something terrible was happening just out of sight. Fever Dream is a novel stripped down to its barest elements, all dialogue and atmosphere, and working with only those elements, it manages to create an authentic nightmare. S amanta Schweblin’s 2017 debut novel, Fever Dream, won the Argentinian writer widespread acclaim as well as a shortlisting for the Man Booker International prize. Eventually, I began to mistrust every word-not because of the potential dishonesty of the characters, and not because the artifice in Schweblin’s conceit was becoming unwieldy. Clarity is the guiding principle that allows the reader through the. The reader begins to feel as if she is Amanda, tethered to a conversation that thrums with malevolence but which provides the only alternative to the void. Fever Dream is written in a style Schweblin herself describes as complex but not complicated. In Fever Dream, every body is a shell for another voice, another presence. Intertwined, these two dialogues form a shadow of an explanation-one that runs on nightmare logic, inexorable but elusive, and always just barely out of reach.

Schweblin sustains both conversations while narrowing them toward a single question: the mysterious horror of the worms. No previous book, at least, has filled me with unease the way Fever Dream did.

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