Dream Your Animal Dreams, (Paperback)

<p><b>In <i>Dream Your Animal Dreams</i>, Carole Martinez crafts a haunting, visionary novel that entwines the personal with the global in a tale of dreams, survival, and transformation. </b></p><p>With her eight-year-old daughter Lucie in her arms, Eva--a neurologist specializing in sleep--retreats to the isolated marshlands of the Camargue to protect them both from a violent man and a world that appears to be unraveling. </p><p>At first their retreat appears idyllic. Then, one night, Lucie wakes in tears after a disturbing dream. It soon emerges that children all over the world are emitting a powerful, universal cry in their sleep--a phenomenon that quickly ripples into waking life, heralding inexplicable calamities that recall ancient plagues. There in the Camargue, between the whispering reeds and the ever-watchful horizon, Eva faces the narrow frontier between waking and dreaming, love and loss, humanity and the natural world. </p><p>Martinez's prose is at once lyrical and visceral, blending myth and psychological insight to explore how collective dreams might be messages from a beleaguered planet. Structurally bold and emotionally potent, the novel addresses themes of motherhood, violence, ecological collapse, and the universal search for meaning in chaos. Rich in atmosphere and moral urgency, <i>Dream Your Animal Dreams</i> is an unforgettable novel by one of France's most beloved novelists. </p>

• Dream Your Animal Dreams, (Paperback)
• Author: Carole Martinez
• ISBN: 9798889662068
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-08
• Page Count: 336