Révi and the City of Dreams
Why it is important not to stop dreaming. And more importantly, keep awake.
Révi is a 15-year-old boy growing up in the City of Dreams. In a perfect place, controlled by the omniscient artificial intelligence Omnicloud. Everyone here lives in safety, abundance and health. Almost all of them. Révi has been suffering from an incurable disease since birth. Apart from poor health, it has another side effect. Unlike the other inhabitants of the City, he has not lost his ability to dream at night. However, only his older sister Esmé knows about this secret. When Révi begins to have strangely vivid dreams in which a mysterious red-haired girl with wild eyes begs him to help the world beyond the Wall, there is no indication at first that he is the one who will save the Wilderness. Shortly afterwards, however, the opposite information comes from Omnicloud: The wall is crumbling and the City of Dreams is in danger of being invaded by the Wilderness. But where is the truth? Can a man believe in his dreams? Or should it rely on a perfectly functional system that has never failed so far?
Veronika Hajek Hurdová
The Pardubice native has already created fifteen books for children and adults: e.g. My Dear Death (2017), A Bird Called Bird (2018), Agnes and the Forbidden Mountain (2020), Agnes and the Island of Shadows (2021) and Bozidara (2022 - the last three have been released in audio version). She spends her days with her three children, whom she home-schools and travels a lot with, and her nights writing a blog (but no longer under the name Raven Mother), which was nominated for the Crystal Magnifying Glass in the One (wo)man show category. She enjoys beach volleyball, playing piano and ukulele, and volunteering on farms in Europe. Now she lives with her husband Petr in Prague. She sees any ending as a good one, because even if she dies tomorrow, she has no regrets.
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