About the Book: Fever Dream
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
Tightly wound and full of dread, Fever Dream is a chilling tale of maternal love
and environmental catastrophe, from an Argentinian literary star
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.
Shes not his mother. Hes not her child.
At Davids 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