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Fever dream : a novel / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell

By:

Schweblin, Samanta, (1978 -)

Contributor(s):

McDowell, Megan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Riverhead Books , 2017Description: 183 pages ; 19 cmISBN:

9780399184598

Subject(s):

Families -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC SCH

LOC classification:

PQ7798.29.C5388 N8313 2017

Summary: 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. Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		052078

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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. Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality.

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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