The Shape of Water

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Love transcends silence, species, and Cold War fears.

If you're a romantic at heart with an appetite for the unconventional, "The Shape of Water" by Guillermo del Toro invites you into a world where love defies all boundaries. The setting in 1962, with the backdrop of Cold War tensions, only fuels the urgency of the love story between Elisa and the enigmatic amphibious creature. It's a tapestry of empathy and bravery that promises to take you on a journey as much about human connection as it is about fantasy.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2018)
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The Shape of Water

Regular price RM40.62 MYR
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ISBN: 9781250302588
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Date of Publication: 2018-02-27
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 19922 readers)

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Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking love story. It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day. Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions…and Elisa can’t keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live. But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.
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Love transcends silence, species, and Cold War fears.

If you're a romantic at heart with an appetite for the unconventional, "The Shape of Water" by Guillermo del Toro invites you into a world where love defies all boundaries. The setting in 1962, with the backdrop of Cold War tensions, only fuels the urgency of the love story between Elisa and the enigmatic amphibious creature. It's a tapestry of empathy and bravery that promises to take you on a journey as much about human connection as it is about fantasy.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2018)
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.