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A postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child--an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body. Betwixt and between, she reluctantly grows into a young woman, until one day she meets an unorthodox doctor who is willing to change her.

The author of the phenomenally successful novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" returns with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.

A BIG, RECKLESS NOVEL...UTTERLY CONVINCING' DAILY TELEGRAPH'At its core The Time Traveler's Wife is an old-fashioned love story. A terrific book...startlingly original' OBSERVERThis is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodicall...

Bevor Audrey Niffenegger mit ihrem Roman >Die Frau des Zeitreisenden< zur Bestsellerautorin wurde, arbeitete sie als Buchkünstlerin in Chicago. Vierzehn Jahre lang zeichnete sie im ironisch abgründigem Stil Edward Goreys eine berückende Märchengeschichte - das Buch ihres Herzens. Dafür nutzte sie das alte und hoch komplizierte Druckverfahren Aquatinta, dessen sich schon Goya bedient hatte. In unvergeßlich starken Bildern und einer klaren Spra...

»Die Frau des Zeitreisenden« ist der literarische Überraschungserfolg aus den USA. Selten wurde so aufwühlend, so anders und neu über die Liebe geschrieben. Clare ist Kunststudentin und eine Botticelli-Schönheit, Henry ein verwegener und lebenshungriger Bibliothekar. Clare fällt aus allen Himmeln, jedes Mal aufs Neue, wenn Henry vor ihr steht. Denn Henry ist ein Zeitreisender, ohne jede Ankündigung verstellt sich seine innere Uhr. Plötzlich ...

Edited by the beloved bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry with fabulous new illustrations for each piece by Audrey, an anthology of classic and contemporary ghost stories featuring authors as wide-ranging as Edgar Allen Poe, P.G. Wodehouse, Neil Gaiman, and Audrey Niffenegger herself.

La prematura muerte de Elspeth Noblin, una excéntrica bibliófila londinense, transforma abruptamente la vida de sus sobrinas, las gemelas Julia y Valentina Poole. A pesar de que no conocían a su tía, ésta les ha dejado en herencia un magnífico piso con vistas al cementerio de Highgate, en Londres, con la condición de que jamás permitan a su madre cruzar el umbral del apartamento. Ansiosas por dejar atrás su aburrida rutina en un típico barrio ...

La prematura muerte de Elspeth Noblin, una excéntrica bibliófila londinense, transforma abruptamente la vida de sus sobrinas, las gemelas Julia y Valentina Poole. A pesar de que no conocían a su tía, ésta les ha dejado en herencia un magnífico piso con vistas al cementerio de Highgate, en Londres, con la condición de que jamás permitan a su madre cruzar el umbral del apartamento. Ansiosas por dejar atrás su aburrida rutina en un típico barrio ...

EDITED, INTRODUCED AND ILLUSTRATED BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Haunted houses, spectral chills, and of course, the odd cat... In this volume, Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, has brought together her selection of the very creepiest, weirdest and wittiest ghost stories around. Scare yourself silly with old favourites by Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Entertain the unnerving with tales from Neil Gaiman, Kelly Li...

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Le due gemelle Julia e Valentina conducono l'esistenza protetta eppure piena di interrogativi tipica degli adolescenti americani. Un giorno ricevono una misteriosa missiva indirizzata loro dalla zia materna Elspeth, gemella a sua volta della loro madre e mai conosciuta. Dalla lettera apprendono della morte della misteriosa zia e di avere ereditato il suo appartamento londinese, a una condizione però: che accettino di viverci per un anno, dando...

A large-format book collecting all Audrey Niffenegger's paintings and drawings. Niffenegger is the author of bestselling novel "The Time Traveler's Wife".

The author of the phenomenally successful novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" returns with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.

First serialized as a weekly column in the UK's "Guardian" newspaper, "The Night Bookmobile" tells the story of a wistful woman who searches for a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read.

*A People Top Ten Book of the Year* The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune).A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair end...

Una conmovedora historia de amor que desafía el paso del tiempo.Una fascinante y muy poco convencional historia de amor: Henry es bibliotecario y padece una extraña disfunción genética que le hace viajar involuntariamente en el tiempo, Clare, su mujer, es artista. Su amor es apasionado y solo aspiran a llevar una vida normal. Sin embargo, los viajes al pasado y al futuro de Henry, que a veces producen situaciones comprometedoras y otras divert...

Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world. She is also the author of two extraordinary novels-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. Now, with The Night Bookmobile, she has written her first graphic novel.First serialised in the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a young woman who one night encounters a my...

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous and hi...

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects in...

Simplified Chinese edition of The Time Traveler's Wife. A whimsical novel of a husband and wife whose love endured despite their age difference - sometimes the wife is older than the husband, sometimes the husband is older - much older. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.