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.