Oneiron

Seven women, each from a different country, wake in a white, featureless space that lies somewhere after death and offers no way out except through words and stories. They include Shlomith, a performance artist from New York; Polina, a chief accountant from Moscow; Rosa Imaculada, a Brazilian heart-transplant patient; Nina, a well-to-do lady from Marseille; Wlbgis, a Dutch woman with throat cancer; Maimuna, a Senegalese girl who dreams of modelling; and Ulrike, an Austrian teenager. Time as they knew it has stopped, and their bodily needs fade one by one: first pain and pleasure, then touch itself. None of them knows what happened. The book moves between essay, lecture, fairy tale, play and poetry.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

439 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Teos

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789518515442 (original)

9781786072597 (Oneworld, United Kingdom)

9781786075116 (Oneworld, United Kingdom)

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