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Copyright © 2014 by Samanta Schweblin

English translation copyright © 2017 by Megan McDowell

First published in Spain by Literatura Random House, 2014

First American edition published by Riverhead Books, 2017

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Ebook ISBN: 9780399184611

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Schweblin, Samanta, date. | McDowell, Megan, translator.

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

Other titles: Núcleo del disturbio. English

Description: First American edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016026585 | ISBN 9780399184598 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Families—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Psychological. | FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Psychological fiction.

Classification: LCC PQ7798.29.C5388 N8313 2017 | DDC 863/.64—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026585

p. cm.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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