From the acclaimed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, ‘If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life’. Filled with lyrical writing, Native American legends, a tender love story, and Codi’s quest for identity, Animal Dreams is literary fiction at its very best.
‘A rich, compassionate book’ Alice Hoffman
‘Rich, complex, witty… This one will be with us for a long time’ Washington Post
‘An emotional masterpiece’ New York Daily News
‘A novel that feels closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I’ve read in a long time’ Cosmopolitan
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Reviews
A rich, compassionate book filled with the personal horrors and the hope and magic of everyday life
Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time . . . An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers
Rich, complex, witty... This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time
Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind
Kingsolver probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom. Animal Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal
Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent... Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book
A glorious tapestry . . . Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams
A novel full of aching sadness - as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing
An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul
Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it
Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect . . . [It] leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope