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Fever Dream

by Samanta Schweblin

International Booker Prize · 2017 · Shortlist
Oneworld Publicationsliterary-fictionISBN 9781786070029

Award History

AwardYearStatus
International Booker Prize2017Shortlist

About This Book

A dying woman reconstructs the events leading to her illness in an urgent dialogue with a strange child. A taut, hallucinatory novella about environmental poisoning and maternal terror. Shortlisted for the 2017 International Booker Prize.

About the Author

Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine author of short stories and novels. Born in Buenos Aires in 1978, she is one of the most celebrated writers of speculative and surrealist Latin American fiction. Her novella *Fever Dream* was shortlisted for the 2017 International Booker Prize. Read more →

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