Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson is a haunting, dreamlike debut that weaves memory, grief, and mystery into a narrative of personal disintegration and creative search. The novel follows a young artist’s journey from Melbourne to Europe in search of a missing surrealist painter, Emil Bafdescu, whose obscure legacy begins to mirror the protagonist’s inner turmoil. Through crumbling relationships and strange encounters, the book becomes a meditation on loss, the meaning of art, and the fever of loneliness that can consume us.
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