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The iconic time travel love story and mega-bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger is "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune).“Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).Henry DeTamble is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random time time-travelling abilities. Clare Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. This is the celebrated and timeless tale of their love. Henry and Clare's passionate affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “[A] time-travel love story par excellence...It will be a hard-hearted reader who is not moved to tears by the dangers Henry and Clare ultimately face, and by the author’s soaring celebration of the victory of love over time.” - Chicago Tribune“Readers will recall in Love in the Time of Cholera a love that works despite all travails and impediments...Marquez, like Niffenegger here, means to tell us that for such exalted love, there is no tragedy and never any constraints.” - The Washington Post Book WorldHighly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships. Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveller - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love This is the story of Henry and Claire, who have known each other since Claire was six and Henry was 36, and were married when Claire was 20 and Henry 28. This is possible only because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with chrono-displacement-disorder - allowing him to travel in time.