The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Project: Orpheuspower of music / fleeting nature of happiness
Year of publication: 2003
Pages: 540
Goodreads: The Time Traveler’s Wife

 

“A romance about a man, uncontrollably travelling through time, meeting a girl in several stages of her life, trying to find a way to live a normal life in a determined yet unpredictable reality.” ~Rookreading

 

Blurb

A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn’t stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.

Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. 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 misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals—steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

 


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