Twins entwined in a ghostly, gothic inheritance tale.
If you're drawn to the eerie yet beautifully written, "Her Fearful Symmetry" could captivate you. Audrey Niffenegger weaves a haunting narrative that delves into themes of love, loss, and identity, all set against the atmospheric backdrop of London's Highgate Cemetery. It's a modern ghost story that touches on familial bonds and the complexities of twinhood in a way that's both intimate and unsettling. An enthralling choice for those who delight in the supernatural mingled with rich, emotional storytelling.
- Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Favorite Book & Fiction (2009)
- LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
ISBN: 9780099524182
Authors:
Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2010-09-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.27
(rated by 95351 readers)
Description
At last ---another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveler's Wife. Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin ... but have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins' mother - and who can't even seem to quite leave her flat.... With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, Her Fearful Symmetry is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger's 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.
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Twins entwined in a ghostly, gothic inheritance tale.
If you're drawn to the eerie yet beautifully written, "Her Fearful Symmetry" could captivate you. Audrey Niffenegger weaves a haunting narrative that delves into themes of love, loss, and identity, all set against the atmospheric backdrop of London's Highgate Cemetery. It's a modern ghost story that touches on familial bonds and the complexities of twinhood in a way that's both intimate and unsettling. An enthralling choice for those who delight in the supernatural mingled with rich, emotional storytelling.
- Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Favorite Book & Fiction (2009)
- LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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