ONEIRON /o.ne-.ron/ noun, dream. Origin- Ancient Greek. Performance artist Shlomith from New York, chief accountant Polina from Moscow, heart transplant patient Rosa Imaculada from Brazil, upper-crust Nina of Marseilles who is expecting twins, Wlbgis from the Netherlands, who suffers from throat cancer, Senegalese Maimuna, who dreams of a career as a model, and Austrian teenager Ulrike have all ended up in an empty, blank space. Time, as we understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily sensations seem to have disappeared. Playing with genres from essay to poetry, Oneiron is an astonishing work that explores the question of what follows death and delves deep into the lives and experiences of seven very different women.

Laura Lindstedt (b. 1976) burst onto the Finnish literary scene in 2007 with her debut novel Scissors, which earned her a nomination for the Finlandia Prize, the country ‘s most prestigious literary honour. Lindstedt ‘s second novel Oneiron has continued Lindstedt ‘s critical success, earning her the 2015 Finlandia Prize. She lives in Helsinki. Owen Witesman holds a BA in Linguistics, an MA in Central Eurasian Studies (Finnish and Estonian) and a PhD in public management. He now works full-time as a literary translator and has translated a number of novels from Finnish into English. He lives in Utah, USA.