Samanta Schweblin Books

The novel begins in darkness, with Amanda’s voice whispering to a boy named David. From the start, their dialogue is tense, clipped, and oddly urgent. Amanda lies in a hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, while David keeps asking her to remember—he insists that time is running out. Th...

From Fever Dream

Amanda recalls meeting Carla, a local woman whose presence is both comforting and unsettling. Carla’s story about her son David becomes the psychological and emotional center around which everything else revolves. One day, she tells Amanda, David drank water from a stream near her home. Soon he fell...

From Fever Dream

The novel opens with the introduction of the kentuki, an invention spreading like wildfire around the globe. It looks simple—a plush animal embedded with sensors, wheels, and a camera. Yet what sets it apart is its dual identity. Every kentuki connects two anonymous people: the keeper, who owns the ...

From Little Eyes

The structure of *Little Eyes* is fragmented, intentionally mirroring how virtual connections scatter across geography. I wanted readers to feel the simultaneity of lives unfolding in Guatemala, Germany, China, Norway, and Mexico—lives that intersect only through the glowing lens of a kentuki. In An...

From Little Eyes

Every story in this collection begins as if nothing extraordinary could ever happen. I wanted the language and situations to mirror the familiar rhythm of daily life: a man parks on the side of the highway, a woman waits for a phone call, a child plays in a garden. Then, imperceptibly, the world shi...

From Mouthful Of Birds (Spanish Edition)

Metamorphosis fascinates me because it reveals what our bodies know before we do. Many of the characters undergo inexplicable changes—they wake in strange places, lose the ability to speak, or observe themselves from an unfamiliar point of view. These mutations are not literal fantasies but reflecti...

From Mouthful Of Birds (Spanish Edition)