The Dreamers: A Novel

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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

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 byÂ Vogue,Â Huffpost,Â Real Simple,Â PopSugar, Literary Hub,Â BuzzFeed, Bustle and Vulture.
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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.

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

â€œThe Dreamers is a startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril. . . . This 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
Author	Karen Thompson Walker
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780812994179
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfPages	304
PublicationDate	2019-01-15
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2019-01-15
Studio	Random House

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