Fever Dream (Hardcover) by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell

from majesdane

I read this book because I'd heard good things about the Spanish stageplay adaption, La Distancia. Given that I live in America and also hardly understand Spanish, I was delighted when I found out it was going to be translated into English and published in the US. It's really more of a novella th...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

I read this without any real idea of what I was reading or why I was reading it. I got to the end and had no real idea of what I had just read. What I can tell you is that I could not stop reading it and while I was reading it those ideas about did not seem relevant. The title is apt as it read l...

from VioletBramble

My favorite book of the year, so far: I grabbed this book off the shelf on my way out the door because it was the smallest book available and would be the least heavy to carry around on a day that I would be carrying a lot of bags. I started reading it while waiting for my train. The train was a ...

from Carmenere

This little gem of a book lassoed me at page 1! It is a tale told through a conversation between David and Amanda. It is dreamlike and surreal and so many questions begin to float through your mind, so you keep reading and reading and reading. From the start, we know that Amanda seems to be paral...

from alanteder

"Fever Dream" is the first novel and the first English translation of Argentinean author Samanta Schweblin who has also published several Spanish language short-story collections. Fever Dream's original 2014 Spanish title was "Distancia de rescate" (literal title translation: The Distance of Resc...