In the Green House
Joanna Biggs: ‘Fever Dream’, 29 June 2017
Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
Oneworld, 160 pp., £12.99, March 2017,978 1 78607 090 6 Show More
by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
Oneworld, 160 pp., £12.99, March 2017,
“... solace for a friend or an offering for an analyst, the dream might be hellishly, inescapably real. Samanta Schweblin’s first novel, Fever Dream, is a dream in which the unknotting detail isn’t yet clear. As the novel opens, Amanda is dying, and there is a voice in her ear saying strange things. The voice belongs to a young boy, David, but he isn’t ... ”