Kiwa launches experimental novel Millumullimallikad

Publishing house ;Paranoia presented Kiwa’s experimental novel “Millumullimallikad” at a contemporary music centre in Tallinn on October 24, ERR reported. The book is a conceptual follow-up to Kiwa’s award-winning debut, “Kummiliimiallikad”.

The novel combines speculative fiction, technopoetics, absurdism, philosophical science fiction and a post-internet aesthetic. Its distorted setting brings different eras, layers of information and realities together, while characters face fractured meanings, digital ruins and imagined memory systems.

One storyline follows events at a secluded boarding school and its surroundings, where different periods seem to overlap physically and reality begins to dissolve. Another explores the boundaries between consciousness, memory and simulation, raising questions about identity, existence, lost meaning and the autonomy of imagination.

The book has a fragmented, associative structure, shifting between prose, pseudo-essay, surreal descriptions, inner monologues, technical language, philosophical digressions and poetic imagery.

Roy Strider edited the book, Tuuli Aule designed it and Mihkel Kleis created the cover. Silvia Sosaar, Kaisa Selde, Ratkiller and DJ Glitch Korts performed at the launch.