A Thousand and One Mornings

• Sample translation available here

“Storytelling is nothing more than poking your tongue at death.” – Ilija Trojanow’s great new novel.

Whether alighting among pirates in the Caribbean or amidst the Russian Revolution—time travel can be full of surprises. Inspired by the peaceful, autonomous society in which she lives in a future age, Cya ventures across time and place to land in strange worlds, steadfastly resolved to free the past from its shackles. And author Ilija Trojanow’s passionate portrait certainly does his courageous heroine justice. His unparalleled combination of narrative virtuosity and critical thinking come together to create a modern epic that transcends borders, illumines time and space, and dares cast a novel gaze into the future. With sensuous imagery and lively storytelling Ilija Trojanow succeeds in reinventing the utopian novel—a novel that testifies to the infinite power of human thought.

"[...] on the one hand a fairy tale, which is alluded to in its title, on the other hand an enlightenment pamphlet, which is also alluded to in the morning-light naming" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andreas Platthaus

"A really great book" - Druckfrisch, Denis Scheck

"With his novel, Trojanow dares to reverse the classic time travel novel that H. G. Wells established with 'The Time Machine.' [...] He does this in a sparkling novel, a book that one never finishes reading, because it is boundless in its narrative and knowledge lust." - Peter Teuwsen, NZZ

"Ilija Trojanow has [...] constructed a particularly beautiful time machine." - WDR3 Mosaik, Denis Scheck

"A celebration of storytelling" - ORF ZIB 1, Katja Gasser

"[...] a furious mind game." - Kulturzeit

"A novel full of rebellious and image-rich narrative lust." - kulturMontag ORF

"[...] Form and content [...] in artful, astonishing agreement." - Frankfurter Rundschau

"great novel of the future" - Der Freitag, Thomas Wagner

"A truly extraordinary literary journey." - Kronen Zeitung