Fever Dream

Brief Overview

In the novel Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, a sense of unease permeates every page: Amanda, lying in a hospital bed, tries to piece together the chain of mysterious events that brought her to this state. In her mind, she hears the voice of a boy named David, who persistently urges her to recall details that slip away from her memory. Their dialogue is like a fever dream, where reality and hallucination intertwine in a frightening mosaic. Through Amanda’s recollections, a story unfolds about maternal anxiety, ecological disaster, and an elusive threat looming over a child’s life. Schweblin masterfully creates an atmosphere of mounting danger, where fear for loved ones becomes all-consuming, and the boundaries between life and death, dream and waking, blur, leaving the reader captive to anxious foreboding.