The Dreamers: A Novel

The Dreamers: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSâ€™ CHOICE â€¢ An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author ofÂ The Age of Miracles.

â€œStunning.â€â€”Emily St. John Mandel, author ofÂ Station ElevenÂ â€¢ â€œA startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour â€¢ Real Simple â€¢ Good Housekeeping

One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleepâ€”and doesnâ€™t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as 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.

Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreamsâ€”but of what?

Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human lifeâ€”if only we are awakened to them.

Praise for The Dreamers

â€œWalkerâ€™s roving fictive eye by turns probes charactersâ€™ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.â€â€”O: The Oprah Magazine

â€œ[Walkerâ€™s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.â€â€”PeopleÂ (Book of the Week)

â€œPowerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œ2019â€™s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . .Â The DreamersÂ is overflowing with humanity.â€â€”Jezebel

â€œThis is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walkerâ€™s sentences are smooth, emotionally arrestingâ€”of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 56188269
ReleaseDate 2019-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812984668

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	56188269
ReleaseDate	2019-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812984668

The Dreamers: A Novel

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