Karen Thompson Walker

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of "The Lovely Bones, " and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's "The Age of Miracles" is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world. ""It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much."" On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life the fissures in her parents' marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.

magine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months Karen Thompson Walker''s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, 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.Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.

THE DREAMERS

A luminous, magical coming-of-age novelMarie ClaireMaybe everything that had happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. Its possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.One Saturday morning the world wakes to discover that the rotation of the earth has begun to slow. As birds fall from the sky and days grow longer, people start to flee - but there is nowhere on earth to escape to. Julia is already coping with the disasters of everyday life. And then theres Seth: tall and quiet and always on his own; the skateboarding boy who knows all about disaster. As the world faces a catastrophe, Julia and Seth are facing their very own unknown.

A stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel Justin Cronin, author of The PassageWHAT IF our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life...? One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself.It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown

Riveting, profoundly moving Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Beautiful and devastating RedThought-provoking and profound CosmopolitanImagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for monthsShe sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset. And yet, in those first few hours, the doctors can find nothing else wrong. She looks like an ordinary girl sleeping ordinary sleep.Karen Thompson Walkers second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital.When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, 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.Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.Praise for The Age of Miracles:What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novelCurtis Sittenfeld A beautifully observed coming-of-age tale nimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated Observer Hauntingly believable an impressive and quietly terrifying book Sunday TimesA stunner from the first page I loved this novel and cant wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next Justin Cronin

Dans la petite ville universitaire de Santa Lora, en Californie du Sud, une maladie mystérieuse plonge les habitants dans un sommeil persistant. C’est d’abord Mei, jeune étudiante d’origine chinoise,

La Júlia té onze anys i viu una plàcida existència Califòrnia amb la seva família quan les noticies informen que una cosa canviarà el món per complet: és, simplement, el principi del fi. La fi del

"No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión. No había heridos. No había muertos. Al principio fue una catástrofe casi invisible."La que habla es Julia. Tiene once años y hasta hace muy poco tiempo solo nos habria contado cosas del colegio, de sus padres, de la complicidad con su unica amiga, de ese chico, Seth, que le provoca un hormigueo especial.Pero hoy tiene algo diferente que decirnos. Hoy, ella y su familia se han despertado con una alarmante noticia: la rotacion de la tierra de pronto se ha ralentizado, y los dias y las noches han empezado a alargarse. Pronto los relojes no serviran de nada. El mundo esta cambiando, y aunque ni ella ni nadie saben lo que va a pasar a partir de ahora, todos intuyen que el futuro sera distinto. Extraño. Perturbador. Aceptar la realidad y aferrarse a la vida, tal cual Julia la conoce, es la unica manera de sobrevivir.A traves de la voz inocente de una niña que lucha por su felicidad, Karen Thompson Walker consigue sumergirnos en ese presente sin futuro, inquietante y extrañamente cotidiano, y nos hace complices de sus anhelos y de sus miedos, de sus preguntas y de sus esperanzas.La edad de los milagros es un conmovedor retrato de la vida de una adolescente en el marco de un mundo cambiante. Una esplendida, cautivadora e inolvidable novela por su original premisa, sus personajes inolvidables y su prosa envolvente."La novela que ha revolucionado el panorama editorial internacional."The Guardian"Un impactante debut literario. Julia es una narradora perfecta.Una historia tan perturbadora como plausible."Publishers Weekly

La edad de los milagros es un conmovedor retrato de la vida de una adolescente en el marco de un mundo cambiante.«No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión. No había heridos. No había muertos. Al

La edad de los milagros es un conmovedor retrato de la vida de una adolescente en el marco de un mundo cambiante.«No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión. No había heridos. No había muertos. Al p