Manuela Draeger’s final novel, the penultimate work of post-exoticism, a major literary edifice created by Antoine Volodine and his avatars in 1998.
In a frozen world where daylight refuses to break, a group of twenty lost children slumbers in the dormitory of a camp. Magda, the only one capable of setting the machinery of time into motion, has just died.
Magda knew how to commit the necessary crime night after night to coax the dawn to finally appear. Without her, darkness continues to reign.
Now, it is Yaki’s turn to dirty his hands in a strange place where descendants of humans, demons, and mummies intertwine. In this universe, where the line between reality and dream blurs, he must confront the shadows of darkness to bring life back into existence.
