Illstr.: Audrey Niffenegger
This novel in aquatint etchings follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemists's daughter. After she is kidnapped by lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jonathan Cape, 2006; EN; ills. col; hb
hb € 17,95
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, letterpress printing and fine edition book production. Her first novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, was published in 2003 and was a bestseller around the world. A film, starring Brad Pitt, will go into production very shortly. Her novel-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters was originally published in an edition of ten copies in 1998, having taken thirteen years to create, and was published by Jonathan Cape in 2005.