Mevlido's Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel

Mevlidos Dreams is a postapocalyptic noir that explores the survival of love and political ideals in a world ravaged by civilizational collapse. Set in a sprawling abyssal ruin ruled by criminals, the novel follows a double agent working for the police as he clings to life and hope in the city's vast slums. The enigmatic Organs organization observes Mevlido's actions and debates its responsibility to him and humanity. The novel is a dense, brilliantly detailed postcollapse reality that grows ever more relevant amidst intensifying climate and political catastrophes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse, Mevlidos Dreams is a meditative, postapocalyptic noir that imagines a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse. Set in the last habitable city on the planet, a sprawling abyssal ruin marked by war and ruled by criminals, the story follows Mevlido, a double agent working for the police and living in the city's vast slums. Suspended in the bardo between his loyalty to the surveillance state and the anarchists, communists, and other rebels he monitors, Mevlido clings to life and hope in the city's vast slums, haunted by the memory of the wife he failed to save during the last war and dreaming of a mysterious mission he is told he must accomplish. At the same time, an enigmatic organization existing elsewhere, the Organs, observes Mevlidos actions and debates its responsibility to him and to humanity as a whole. Asking what it means to love and care for others at the end of the world, this dense, brilliantly detailed postcollapse reality imagined by Antoine Volodine is one that grows ever more relevant amidst intensifying climate and political catastrophes. A key work in Volodines post-exotic fictional universe, Mevlidos Dreams envisions a world changed beyond recognition and ruled under irrational authoritarianism in which dreams nest within dreams and the boundaries between life and death are fluid and uncertain.

Weight: 406g
Dimension: 135 x 202 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781517917142