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  • Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?

    This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it wa ... Continue

    Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?

    This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it was out of his control. She accepted him as part of her life. Each time he left, all she could do was to hope that he would come back to her.

    In spite of a slightly confusing beginning, it is a good bittersweet love story.

    

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• ― Tiny said on Aug 24, 2006 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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  • I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ing ... Continue

    I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ingenious writing reminds me one of my favorite movies "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind".

    

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• ― meowmeow said on Jan 26, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • surprisingly hooked...

  • despite it being a bonkers premise; it seems to actually work! Really enjoyed this and got totally caught up in it...

    

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• ― goldtop said on May 1, 2007 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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  • Sorprendentemente (porque no me gustan las novelas románticas) me ha gustado. Quizá sea porque no es nada pastoloso. Os dejo la reseña que le he dedicado en mi blog:

    http://lahierbaroja.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/la...

    

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• ― Lahierbaroja said on Nov 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
    Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
    He time-trav ... Continue

    This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
    Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
    He time-travels, she waits for him in her present, but she's already met him somewhere in the past and will find him again in the future. His lifestream is uneven as its tale, but time- and age-hints heading each chapter help the reader through it.
    Actually, human beings are chrono-displaced by default; our emotional memory is, at any rate. Henry, in a way, embodies this condition.
    Compelling as the plot is, it also carves our soul, affecting all that really really matters. Pulse, wishes, fulfilment, and frustration. Magic and loss, the bittersweet taste of this everyday adventure, whose true essence seems to glimpse at our life now and then, brightening hard times with enchantment every time we realize that time is nothing.

    

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• ― Zu (giuliozu) said on Nov 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Original, intriguing, moving

  • I started this book with a bit of prejudice: usually time-travel storires remind me of Quantum Leap and Back To The Future. I was wrong: the time-travel part of the story works as a sort of metaphor. Henry is like Ulysses, constantly taken away from his present and his home, force to travel in times ... Continue

    I started this book with a bit of prejudice: usually time-travel storires remind me of Quantum Leap and Back To The Future. I was wrong: the time-travel part of the story works as a sort of metaphor. Henry is like Ulysses, constantly taken away from his present and his home, force to travel in times and spaces he cannot command, often with great peril. Clare is Penelope, the faithful wife awaiting for her husband's return.
    Theirs is a love story made by destiny and bound to end in tragedy, but a very moving story indeed.
    The book is beautifully written in a prose that manages to capture scenes and emotions in just a few words.
    I recommend it to those who like love stories, nice fiction with a twist and books that are not dull.

    

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• ― AlittaM said on Nov 12, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six... [예스24 제공]

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