Audrey Niffenegger

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, dandosi il tempo e il modo di conoscere finalmente una parente così prossima eppure mai incontrata prima. Dopo mille tentennamenti i genitori delle due ragazze danno il loro assenso. Quello che Julia e Valentina troveranno ad attenderli è un bizzarro e affascinante appartamento prospiciente il suggestivo cimitero di Highgate, in un palazzo abitato da curiosi personaggi che conoscevano assai bene la zia. Elspeth da: canto suo è tutt'altro che scomparsa, e ben presto comincia a dare inquietanti segnali della sua presenza all'interno della casa, segnali a cui Valentina è particolarmente sensibile.

The brilliant new novel from the author of the massive international bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife.

The Night Bookmobile is a short story about a young woman who encounters a bookmobile disguised as a Winnebago that contains everything she's ever read (her diary, cereal boxes, manuals, everything).

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.

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 his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing. The Time Traveler''s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare''s passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that theyve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunts mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

Her Fearful Symmetry is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffeneggers familiar themes of love, loss and identity. It is certain to cement her standing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time..

Audrey NiffeneggerAudrey Niffenegger's spectacularly compelling second novel opens with a letter that alters the fate of every character. Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in college or finding jobs. Their attachment to one another is intense. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. From a London solicitor, the enclosed letter informs Valentina and Julia that their English aunt Elspeth Noblin, whom they never knew, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions to this inheritance: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast and ornate Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Stella Gibbons and Karl Marx are buried. Julia and Valentina come to know the living residents of their building. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword-puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive compulsive disorder; Marijke, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their aunt.

This book is 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 senseless 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.

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 his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing. The Time Traveler''s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare''s passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Un hombre tiene la capacidad de viajar en el tiempo y revisita su historia de amor...Clare y Henry forman una pareja aparentemente normal, se quieren e intentan ser felices. Sin embargo, Henry padece una extraña enfermedad que le impulsa a viajar en el tiempo, que le permitio conocer a Clare cuando aun era un niña y que lo condena a enfrentarse a su incierto, y acaso tragico, futuro. Una narracion tremendamente original y entrañable sobre el paso del tiempo y la perdurabilidad del amor que sin duda fascinara desde la primera pagina.

A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story - TatlerWhen Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitors letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, neither twin knew their aunt existed.As Julia and Valentina begin to unravel their aunts the secrets, aided by her msysterious lover, it becomes clear that she might not be quite ready to leave the flat, even after death.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

Internationally bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger and her husband, graphic artist Eddie Campbell, collaborate on this quirky, irreverent collection that celebrates and satirises love of all kinds. With thirteen different vignettes about love, loss, fairies, misbehaviour, regret, wanton wrongheadedness, cats, supernatural exterminators, spies, ghosts, more cats, more fairies, and a handful of ex-boyfriends, Bizarre Romance runs the gamut when it comes to relationships. It explores the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain weird with Niffeneggers sharp, imaginative prose and Campbells diverse comic styles, always with a sense of humour and cosmic justice.

Two great loves. A world in chaos. And a life that never lands in order. Discover the long-awaited sequel to the bestselling phenomenon, The Time Travelers Wife.Alba DeTamble is a time traveler, slipping unpredictably through decades like her father before her. But the hardest thing she carries isnt the burden of futures she cant understand, or pasts she cannot change its a secret: she is in love with two different people.Each of them offers a different life. Zach lives in the present and cant follow her when she disappears. Oliver can travel through time, just like she can.As Alba careens from time to time, moving from the riot-torn Chicago streets of her present to the eerie, timeless Yellow House, and into the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls and a flooded future London, she must face a question she can no longer avoid: how is it possible to love, and live a meaningful life, in an increasingly troubled, fractured world?Intimate and expansive, Life Out of Order is a kaleidoscopic story of love, resilience and hope when time is running out.

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 divertidas, son un desafio a su relacion.Una novela que invita a pensar en la perdurabilidad del amor y el paso del tiempo, en la emocion irrepetible de las primeras sensaciones, tanto en una relacion como en la vida. Una lectura que, llevando de la sonrisa a la emocion, conmueve. Y una historia original e inolvidable.

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 divertidas, son un desafio a su relacion.Una novela que invita a pensar en la perdurabilidad del amor y el paso del tiempo, en la emocion irrepetible de las primeras sensaciones, tanto en una relacion como en la vida. Una lectura que, llevando de la sonrisa a la emocion, conmueve. Y una historia original e inolvidable.