The Dreamers: A Novel

The Dreamers: A Novel

An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from theÂ New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ The Age of Miracles.

â€œThis book is stunning.â€â€”Emily St. John Mandel, author ofÂ Station Eleven
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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.
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Advance praise for The Dreamers

â€œFrighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny, The Dreamers is a love story and also a horror storyâ€”a symphonic achievement, alternating intimate moments with a panoramic capture of a crisis in progress.â€â€”Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove

â€œA modern Midsummer Nightâ€™s Dream . . . In this wonderful novel, Walker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth.â€â€”Marisha Pessl, author of Night Film

â€œWhat a book! I read The Dreamers in a dream of sorts myself, entirely transported into Karen Thompson Walkerâ€™s world of mysterious tragedy and infinite, if unexpected, compassion. This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving one. How she takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beauty, a lesson in the human spirit, is a mystery to me, but she does exactly that, and fortunate readers will celebrate this extraordinary book.â€â€”Robin Black, author of Life Drawing
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0812994167
ReleaseDate 2019-01-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812994162

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0812994167
ReleaseDate	2019-01-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812994162

The Dreamers: A Novel

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