An ideal choice for fans of “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell!
It began with her… Eloisa Maria Montbéliard, née Foucher, was one of the smartest women of her generation. Her life flared up with a bright flash—a swift blaze cut off at the height of things. This flash could have gone unnoticed, but it didn’t. In this world, there are those who look into the night, those who, falling asleep, see dreams of others, inheriting other people’s memories. They are born in the year of a comet—on the day when night is pierced by a sudden streak of light. Their gift is prophetic dreams about the past. Their burden is memory of what’s gone. They fall asleep and see other people’s lives—millions of untold stories that might otherwise vanish forever. Marianne Muse, Katya Nemtsova, Galley Goushek—descendants of Eloisa Montbéliard. They witnessed wars and truces, they knew life and death.
Their memory, protected across centuries, guarded stories from the creeping darkness of oblivion. But now it’s time to speak…