Luis Aira

The Dreamer Luis Aira

Slim is a homeless old timer who still loves life. He lies helpless under an apple tree when he notices a young man sitting next to him. The stranger has an air of joy and purity about him that accompanies an off season scent of apple blossoms. This peculiar fellow with no name has no recollection of his identity or the world around him. So Slim tells him to pick a name and after giving him a few tips sends him off pointing out that in this life "you have to be somebody." And so "Apple", as he calls himself, departs into a brand new world. On his journey he soon discovers human beings are amazing creatures capable of making their dreams come true and starts wondering who dreamed him. What follows is a wondrous trek through the nature of what makes us human in search of the one who dreamed us. "The Dreamer" is an imaginative and inspirational fable that delivers the reader a sense of belonging to the universal dream we call life.