Inan arresting series of images, the story of a young woman's tragic, often violent, life unfolds. Follow her as she lives out her destiny throughseventeenchapters, including "Childhood, The Father, The Mother, Service, Love, Vengeance, The Seducer, " and "The Crime." Each visual dimension of her world is a riveting discovery.
In the style of genre masters Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, Nuckel's graphic novel pulses with movement and a vivid unspoken life. No words are needed to accompany the 188 stark black-and-white illustrations: the pictures speak for themselves. This stunning pictorial narrative, open to endless interpretation, is charged with a page-turning power by each memorable and hypnotic drawing. "