Manuela Draeger’s final novel, the penultimate work of post-exoticism, the major literary edifice created by Antoine Volodine and his avatars in 1998.
In a frozen world where the day refuses to dawn, twenty lost children slumber in a camp dormitory. Magda, the only one who could set the mechanics of time in motion, has just died.
Magda knew how, night after night, to carry out the crime necessary for dawn to dawn at last. Without her, darkness continues to reign.
Now it’s Yaki’s turn to get his hands dirty in a strange place where human descendants, demons and mummies mingle. In a world where the boundary between reality and dreams becomes blurred, he must confront the shadows of darkness to bring life back to life.
