Fourteen years after her debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, sold nine million copies globally and became a Hollywood movie, Niffenegger has finally written its sequel. The sci-fi romance that catapulted the author into literary superstardom introduced the world to Henry, a man born with a genetic disorder that makes him a reluctant time traveller, and his long-suffering great love, Clare. The debut had depth, artistry and literary sensibilities that elevated its status to become one of the books of the decade. Niffenegger is a professor, a visual artist and deep thinker with an eccentric creative impulse that was further evidenced in the work that followed, such as Her Fearful Symmetry and the creepy illustrated gothic novel, The Three Incestuous Sisters. As such, if, as sales suggest, the devotees of her debut have not been reading Niffenegger in the intervening years, they may be in for a shock with the…
The Irish Times · Irlandahace 58 minutos