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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.A labour of love. Before Audrey Niffenegger wrote the now bestselling novel, The Time Traveler's Wife (currently being filmed by Gus Van Sant), she embarked on a 14-year-long “labour of love”. Her collection of narrative aquatint images comprising The Three Incestuous Sisters was bound in leather and only 10 hand-printed copies were made. Years later, it’s now available to the rest of us…Niffenegger’s tale of sisters divided by love for the same man, and the ensuing tragedy, uses words with minimal elegance to nudge your understanding of her haunting, Chagall-like images. The svelte sisters - representing beauty, brains and talent - are characterized using immensely long hair in different colours. Their world is one of plain interiors and evocative details in dusty greys and muted colours, their story filled with heartbreak and understated magic. In some ways it’s an utterly feminine observation of sisters interacting, but one which lacks any sentimentality. An object to be treasured and a story which unfolds like a play - or, as the author says, “a silent film made from Japanese prints” - The Three Incestuous Sisters is an affecting addition to the picture-book genre. The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger, out now published by Jonathan Cape.
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