Description
In Dream Your Animal Dreams, Carole Martinez crafts a haunting, visionary novel that entwines the personal with the global in a tale of dreams, survival, and transformation.
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.
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.
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, Dream Your Animal Dreams is an unforgettable novel by one of France’s most beloved novelists.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Carole Martinez,Adriana Hunter (Translator)
Published: 09/08/2026
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 9798889662068
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 1.20″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.30″ W
About the Author
Martinez, Carole: – Carole Martinez is the award-winning French novelist of The Castle of Whispers (Europa, 2014) and The Threads of the Heart (Europa, 2013), among others. Known for her lyrical voice and imaginative scope, Martinez has garnered critical acclaim and major literary recognition in France, including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Dream Your Animal Dreams is her fifth novel. She lives in France.Hunter, Adriana: – Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She is known for translating over 100 French novels, such as Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb or The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. She has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. In 2011 she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi’s Beside the Sea. In 2013, she won the 27th Annual Translation Prize founded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for her translation of Electrico W by Hervé Le Tellier (2013). She is also a contributor to Words Without Borders. She lives in Kent, England.
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