All the Suns Go Out

On the same night Burcuș first meets her and falls in love, the radical intellectual and activist feline Ses-Hat undergoes voluntary lobotomization, an act of moral protest against the evolution of reason, language, and self-awareness in predatorial species.

Fulfilling her final wishes, her lobotomist comrades leave the lupine investigator with a task: to find a safe hatching place for an egg they say contains a cygnine human, a rational swan, a non-predatory animal capable of thought and speech-the very thing the Boyar class insists is socially dangerous and biologically impossible.

As he investigates the case of a mysterious hypnotist and strives to keep the secret of the egg from Ali, his hostile tigrine partner, Burcuș wrestles with the gnawing sense that something broken and sinister lies at the heart of life and the world.

Steven Nemes's debut novel ALL THE SUNS GO OUT is like Haruki Murakami meets A Canticle for Leibowitz meets the Gnostic gospels.