"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream." —Vanity Fair 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. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. 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, taut novel.
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“The story is unsettling enough, yet Hillary Huber’s reading adds additional chills for the listener. She perfectly captures the protagonist’s anxiety as it slowly turns to fear and horror…At first, listeners may have difficulty understanding what is happening, but they’ll quickly be drawn into the psychological suspense and hooked to see how it all will end.”
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“Genius.”
— New Yorker“[An] electric story.”
— Vanity Fair“To call Schweblin’s novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power…Schweblin’s book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.”
— New York Times Book Review“Mesmerizing.”
— Washington Post“A remarkable accomplishment in literary suspense.”
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Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of Granta’s twenty-two best writers in Spanish under the age of thirty-five. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize. Her novel Fever Dream was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.