{"product_id":"mevlidos-dreams-a-post-exotic-novel-9781517917142","title":"Mevlido's Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, \u003ci\u003eMevlido's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse. Mevlido is a double agent working for the police and living in the last habitable city on the planet, a sprawling abyssal ruin marked by war and ruled by criminals. Suspended in the bardo between his loyalty to the surveillance state and to the anarchists, communists, and other rebels he monitors, Mevlido clings to life and hope--barely--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 Mevlido's actions and debates its responsibility to him and to humanity as a whole. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 Volodine's post-exotic fictional universe, \u003ci\u003eMevlido's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer who has published twenty books under this name, of which several are available in English translation: \u003ci\u003eMinor Angels, Radiant Terminus, Bardo or Not Bardo, Writers, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSolo Viola\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2021). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gina Stamm is assistant professor of French at the University of Alabama. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621273407762,"sku":"9781517917142","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d452f532-e973-400d-9adc-d9748dcb4554.jpg?v=1732584018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mevlidos-dreams-a-post-exotic-novel-9781517917142","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}