Why a Booktrail?
2000s: What is real and what is not?
Fever Dream
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: What is real and what is not?
What you need to know before your trail
A woman lies dying in a hospital bed. Beside her a visitor sits talking to her, he has an important mission and there is little time left. There is something very strange about the woman in the bed and stranger still about the visitor next to her. Their conversation is a dream like sequence, and as they discuss the past, they try to make sense of what has led them both to here, to this place.
Travel Guide
Location wise there is no real location to speak off. Like in a dream the setting is a long stream of consciousness set somewhere in Argentina. The woman in the novel has a husband working in Buenos Aires and has left to spend time in the countryside with her child. There is mention of drinking mate (also known as yerba mate, chimarrão, a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink. In Argentina it’s even written in law as the “national infusion”.
What happens in the countryside – among the fields of horses and open spaces – and within the so called “Green House” is a matter of interpretation. A woman here claims to cure illness unlike any doctor by a process of “migration’ She’s not a psychic but can see people’s energy and tell is someone is sick and where in the body the negative energy is coming from.
But it’s beside that hospital bed that the real setting emerges from the dreamlike mist.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Fever Dream
Author/Guide: Samanta Schweblin Destination: Argentina
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