"Een man krijgt na de dood van zijn vrouw de grootste moeite met hun talent: gedachtenlezen."
"Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run--from his mind, from his past, from himself--hoping to find peace in isolation..."
"Simmons received the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, Song of Kali; the Hugo Award for his epic Hyperion; and horror's highest honor, the Bram Stoker Award, for his novel Carrion Comfort. Now he masterfully combines all three genres in this novel about one man's journey through a landscape few would dare to visit: the deepest, most private hells of other people's minds."@en
"A leading mathematician with an unwanted ability to read minds hopes to find peace in isolation but ends up on an odyssey across America in search of a voice that is calling him."@en