Audrey Niffenegger Libri

Morta prematuramente all'età di quarantaquattro anni, Elspeth Noblin lascia la sua dimora londinese in eredità alle nipoti gemelle, Julia e Valentina. Le ragazze, cresciute negli Stati Uniti e legate da un intenso anche se combattuto attaccamento reciproco, non hanno mai conosciuto la zia: sanno solo che anche lei e la loro madre erano sorelle gemelle. Libere da impegni di studio e di lavoro, decidono di trasferirsi nell'appartamento di Elspeth, che confina con il cimitero di Highgate, autentico monumento a cielo aperto della Londra vittoriana. Qui incontreranno gli altri abitanti del palazzo: Martin, brillante studioso affetto da una grave nevrosi che gli impedisce di uscire di casa; sua moglie Marjike, intrappolata dalla malattia del marito che la costringerà a prendere un'importante decisione; e Robert, lo sfuggente amante di Elspeth, impegnato nella stesura di un'imponente tesi di dottorato sula storia del cimitero. A mano a mano che le ragazze si lasceranno coinvolgere nelle inquietanti esistenze dei nuovi vicini di casa, scopriranno che Highgate brulica di strane "presenze", tra cui la stessa Elspeth, che non sembra intenzionata a lasciare la sua casa, né (forse) la vita terrena... Avvolta in un'atmosfera spettrale, tra suggestioni gotiche ed echi dell'opera di Henry James e Charles Dickens, Un'inquietante simmetria è una perfetta storia di fantasmi del XXI secolo e al contempo una riflessione sull'amore e l'identità, sugli affetti segreti e la sorellanza; e sulla tenace, straordinaria intensità della vita, anche dopo la morte.

Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down. From unforgettable books like The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods to ground-breaking comics and graphic novels like The Sandman and Violent Cases; from big screen fantasies like Coraline to small screen epics like Doctor Who; and from short stories to songwriting, stage plays to radio plays, journalism to filmmaking, and all points in-between, The Art of Neil Gaiman is the first comprehensive, full-colour examination of Gaiman's work to date.

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife returns with another evocative “novel in pictures,” the much-anticipated follow-up to 2005’s The Three Incestuous Sisters. The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemist’s daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffenegger’s spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings. With a stunning and distinctive visual style reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey, this gothic romance packs the emotional heft of the world’s great fairy tales. It will delight fans of the author’s previous works and enchant an entirely new legion of readers.

They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation - these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts.

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 Link and Audrey Niffenegger herself. And as bedtime nears, allay your fears with funny new writing from Amy Giacalone and the classic wit of Saki. When the nights draw in and the fire burns low, enjoy the eeriness, the dread and the comedy of all things ghostly.

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.First serialised in the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a young woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing mobile library that happens to stock every book she has ever read.

A postman falls in love with a raven he finds on his route. He takes her home, and they become an unlikely couple, ultimately having a child—an extraordinary raven girl living in a human body.

A captivating set of short stories... most appealing... meanders down some quirky byways, full of thwarted fairies, unusual fantasy realms and plenty of cats. Sarah Hughes i

Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, the author's art is a vital a part of her vision as her best-selling novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. This is a mid-career retrospective of her work, reflecting her talent for cultivating a narrative through pictures and her own confrontations with life, mortality, and magic.