Novel by Jessica Oswald
Right after Covid, Denise (29) still suffers from heavy anxieties and doesn’t ever leave her flat. When she finally tries to commit suicide by jumping into the lion’s compound, she’s saved by zookeeper Nils (36) and heavily falls in love with him. But Nils is not real. His existence as zookeeper is just a dream. His actual name is Menaris. He’s a warrior-magician in a live-action-roleplay group. Denise follows him into his world and seems to find her real fate. But the more she tries to make Menaris fall in love with her, the more she looses him…
“They say there’s another world beyond this river. We’re small there, much smaller than here. And we don’t have any stories. They say we live there like animals. Without power. Without wisdom. Without fate. I have seen this world in my dreams. I talk to the animals, just like here. But they don’t answer. It makes me sad. And then I fear, that I, Menaris, am not the dreamer. But the dream.”
available at amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0ETjmwr
Monolith Film Verlag 2024
224 pages, German
An English version will be published in 2025.
Rezensionen:
“„MENARIS“ ist ein Fantasy-Angst-Roman mit fesselnden Einblicken in die Komplexität der Psyche. Der Autorin gelingt es auf 222 Seiten, eine packende Geschichte zu erzählen, die Fantasie mit tiefgehenden Reflexionen über Wahrnehmung und Realität kombiniert.” – Tamara Niebler