We Are Light

In a land of well-stocked shops, a woman's wasted body lies on an inflatable mattress in a shared home: she has starved. She lived with others who hoped, as a group, to beat hunger and thirst, sickness and mortality by feeding on light and air alone. The tale is passed among objects and conditions rather than people: the bread they refused, some socks, a juice press, the internet, the people next door, the lawyer, a smell of citrus. Together they sketch people who distrust science and would rather hurt themselves than stop being one group.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

223 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2020 by Podium

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789057590009 (original)

9781642861273 (World Editions, United States)

9781912987511 (World Editions, United Kingdom)