The Three Incestuous Sisters


The Three Incestuous Sisters
by Audrey Niffenegger

A novel in pictures by the author of the bestselling novel The Time Traveler's Wife. A bizarre, fascinating, unique book. I'm not about to try to describe it.

Here's a little of what the author says: "This is the book of my heart, a fourteen-year labor of love...I wrote the text; as the images gained in complexity, the text dwindled until the weight of the story was carried by the images...These images are aquatints...an idiosyncratic antique process, which for some reason makes me love it all the more...During the years I worked on The Three Incestuous Sisters I went to graduate school...went to Europe five times; and had five solo exhibitions, four love affairs, three cats, and several hundred students...When I try to explain The Three Incestuous Sisters to someone who hasn't seen it, I tell them to imagine a silent film made from Japanese prints, a melodrama of sibling rivalry, a silent opera that features women with very long hair and a flying green boy. I never try to explain what it means; you can find that out for yourself. I'm glad that it has finally completed its long journey from my mind to yours."

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers & printed & bound in China, which shows that not everything that comes out of China is Wal*Mart crap. High quality book here. Of course, the Chinese have been printing books for a lot longer than our Western ancestors have.

Audrey Niffenegger