The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
eBook
(Scribner UK, Jan. 15, 2019)
?âHarrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written⌠this book is stunningâ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ~*~The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles~*~Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months⌠Karen Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.âThis beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its ownâ Red âLyrical and beguiling⌠a deeply immersive novel about a community in peril⌠and the choices we make when our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in dangerâ The Observer âA modern Midsummer Nightâs Dream⌠Walker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youthâ Marisha Pessl, author of Night Film âFrighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny⌠a love story and also a horror storyâ Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove âThis is a profound novel, and a deeply moving one⌠she takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beautyâ Robin Black, author of Life Drawing âLovely, lyrical and scary⌠a mesmerising readâ Psychologies magazine âA thought-provoking and profound storyâ Cosmopolitan âA slow-building, philosophical and unique novel⌠at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction taleâ CultureflyPraise for The Age of Miracles: âA beautifully observed coming-of-age tale⌠nimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticatedâ Observer âHauntingly believable⌠an impressive and quietly terrifying bookâ Sunday Times'A stunner from the first page⌠I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next' Justin Cronin 'What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel' Curtis Sittenfeld