Audrey Niffenegger

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 genetica 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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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, esta les ha dejado en herencia un magnifico piso con vistas al cementerio de Highgate, en Londres, con la condicion de que jamas permitan a su madre cruzar el umbral del apartamento. Ansiosas por dejar atras su aburrida rutina en un tipico barrio residencial de Estados Unidos, las gemelas ignoran lo que el destino les depara en Inglaterra. Por un lado, estan sus nuevos vecinos: Martin Wells, un brillante y seductor erudito que vive atenazado por sus obsesiones, y el esquivo Robert Fanshaw, antiguo amante de Elspeth, un historiador que ha dedicado media vida a estudiar el famoso cementerio, visible desde su ventana. Y por otro, los secretos de su tia, que incluso despues de muerta parece resistirse a abandonar su apartamento.Con claros ecos de Wilkie Collins y el curioso protagonismo del cementerio de Highgate, la segunda novela de Audrey Niffenegger autora de La mujer del viajero en el tiempo, un enorme exito editorial con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo es una sugerente y apasionante novela gotica del siglo xxi que sin duda atrapara la imaginacion del lector desde la primera pagina.

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, esta les ha dejado en herencia un magnifico piso con vistas al cementerio de Highgate, en Londres, con la condicion de que jamas permitan a su madre cruzar el umbral del apartamento. Ansiosas pordejar atras su aburrida rutina en un tipico barrio residencial de Estados Unidos, las gemelas ignoran lo que el destino les depara en Inglaterra. Por un lado, estan sus nuevos vecinos: Martin Wells, un brillante y seductor erudito que vive atenazado por sus obsesiones, y el esquivo Robert Fanshaw, antiguo amante de Elspeth, un historiador que ha dedicado media vida a estudiar el famoso cementerio, visible desde su ventana. Y por otro, los secretos de su tia, que incluso despues de muerta parece resistirse a abandonar su apartamento.Con claros ecos de Wilkie Collins y el curioso protagonismo del cementerio de Highgate, la segunda novela de Audrey Niffenegger -autora de La mujer del viajero en el tiempo, un enorme exito editorial con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo-es una sugerente y apasionante novela gotica del siglo xxi que sin duda atrapara la imaginacion del lector desde la primera pagina.

Un autentic fenomen editorial que ha trobat un lloc mes que merescut en el panorama literari.La Valentina i la Julia, dues germanes bessones adolescents i inseparables que viuen amb els seus pares als Estats Units, reben una estranya herencia d'una tia de la qual nomes han sentit a parlar pero que mai no han arribat a coneixer. Es tracta de l'enigmatica germana bessona de la seva mare, amb qui fa mes de vint anys que no tenen cap mena de contacte.El testament es clar i taxatiu: la Valentina i la Julia heretaran el pis de la tia, situat en un edifici victoria a la vora d'un dels cementiris mes antics de Londres, pero nomes si hi van a viure durant un any sencer... i amb una altra condicio: que la seva mare no hi fiqui mai els peus.Mortes de curiositat, les dues noies marxen a Londres i s'introdueixen en un univers desconegut on el fantasma de la seva tia sembla que habiti cada raco de la casa, on es diria que les parets amaguen secrets insondables, i els estrafolaris vens, foscos misteris.Soles, la Valentina i la Julia es deixaran seduir per aquest ambient perillosament romantic i correran el risc de submergir-se en un mon d'on resulta molt dificil tornar a sortir.a