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Fever Dream (Paperback)
Samanta Schweblin; Translated by Megan McDowell
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 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. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent
prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently
recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has
landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of
horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is
brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come
out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of
strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this
cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and
desperation of family.
* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that
will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the
three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a
vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century
canon.' âO, the Oprah magazine Cross the threshold of these seven
empty houses and enter the dark, destabilising world of Samanta
Schweblin. Here, homes are not a place of safety. A person is
missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some
unmoored, others empty. And in these tense, visionary
tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight,
trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, or the
fallibility of parents. Seven Empty Houses offers an entry
point into a fiercely original mind. In each story, the
twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes
the expected path and instead digs under the skin and reveals
uncomfortable truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of
the fragility of our connections with others. This is a
masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclan, 2020 Nominated for a
Shirley Jackson Award, 2019 A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES
FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's
wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson
flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and
unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds
are impossible to forget. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly
blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the
reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An
exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing.
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the
collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted
master of the spine-tingling tale A Guardian & Observer Best
Fiction Book of 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of
the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR
Best Books of the Year World Literature Today's 75 Notable
Translations of 2020 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 2020 * A
New York Times Notable Book of 2020 They're not pets. Not ghosts or
robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can
trust them. They care about you... They've infiltrated apartments
in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town
squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana.
Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal
the beauty of connection between far-flung souls - but they also
expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society. Samanta
Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel pulls us into a dark and
complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous
adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a
truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This
is our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet.
*Little Eyes comes with two different covers, and the cover you
receive will be chosen at random*
* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that
will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the
three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a
vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century
canon.' -O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven
stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory;
some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in
Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps
back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do
before you die, or the fallibility of parents. Seven Empty Houses
offers an entry point into a fiercely original mind, and a
slingshot into Schweblin's destabilizing, exhilarating literary
world. In each story, the twists and turns will unnerve and
surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs
under the skin and reveals uncomfortable truths about our sense of
home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with
others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern
writers.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMA SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 'The book I wish I had written' Lisa
Taddeo, author of Three Women and Animal A young woman named Amanda
lies dying in a remote Argentinian hospital. A boy named David sits
beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. At David's
ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events
from the apparently recent past, a conversation that opens a chest
of horrors. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls,
toxins, and the power and desperation of family. A chilling tale of
maternal anxiety and ecological menace, Fever Dream is a modern
classic. Samanta Schweblin's unforgettable debut is a prescient
warning about our manipulation of the natural world, and an
unforgettable exercise in literary suspense.
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