The Dreamers

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'The Dreamers is harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written. In a word, this book is stunning 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, months... A world where you could, even, die of sleep rather than in your sleep.

Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is stunning, the story of a Californian town's epidemic of perpetual sleep.

Praise for The Dreamers:
A modern Midsummer Nights Dream . . . In this wonderful novel, Walker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth Marisha Pessl, author of Night Film

Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny, The Dreamers is a love story and also a horror story - a symphonic achievement, alternating intimate moments with a panoramic capture of a crisis in progress Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories

What a book! I read The Dreamers in a dream of sorts myself, entirely transported into Karen Thompson Walkers 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 Robin Black, author of Life Drawing

Praise for The Age of Miracles:
A beautifully observed coming-of-age tale in the great American tradition ... nimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated Observer

Hauntingly believable ... an impressive and quietly terrifying book Sunday Times

'Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel is a stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next' Justin Cronin, author of The Passage

'What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel' Curtis Sittenfeld

'Brought to mind Alice Sebbold's The Lovely Bones' The Times

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Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully writtenthis book is stunningEmily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

This beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its ownRed

Lovely, lyrical and scarya mesmerising readPsychologies

A thought-provoking and profound storyCosmopolitan

Lyrical and beguilinga deeply immersive novel about a community in peril and the choices we make when our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in dangerThe Observer

A modernMidsummer Nights DreamWalker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youthMarisha Pessl, author ofNight Film

Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncannya love story and also a horror storyKaren Russell, author ofVampires in the Lemon Grove

This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving oneshe takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beautyRobin Black, author ofLife Drawing

A slow-building, philosophical and unique novel at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction taleCulturefly

'Powerful and moving... written with symphonic sweep'New York Times Book Review

'[An] imaginative, disturbing and ultimately spellbinding narrative, which asks provokative questions about our concepts of time and connection, and the bounds of possibility for life on earth'Vogue

'Powerful, thoughtful and entirely original'PopSugar

Author Bio

Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.