![]() ![]() Verdict: Part unreliable nightmare, part dysfunctional confession, part eco-parable, Schweblin’s slim title should prove irresistible to contemporary world literature aficionados. ![]() Saving his body cleaves his soul, the consequences of which lead inexplicably to Amanda’s daughter Nina. This is a short book and really is like living a fever dream. Amanda adds another narrative layer, sharing Carla’s story from six years previous when David fell devastatingly ill after drinking from a poisoned stream. Fever dream by Samantha schweblin Just wanted to bring up this book again, as I just found out it is being made into a Netflix movie, releasing in the US 10/13. ![]() Worms, migrating souls, unseen toxins, and deformed children punctuate a mysterious dialog between Amanda, a dying woman in an emergency clinic, and David, a boy not her son. The print version uses italics to distinguish David’s part of the conversation from Amanda’s here, veteran narrator Hillary Huber impressively, instantly, adapts her voice as necessary.Īmanda and David take turns reconstructing an elliptical recent past that begins “a few days ago” when Amanda met David’s mother, Carla, at a lake house. Samantha Schweblin, who is Buenos Aires-born and now lives in Berlin, makes her English-language novel debut, thanks to McDowell’s crisp translation. ![]()
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