The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger starts when Henry meets Claire for the first time and she is ecstatic to finally have found the love of her life in the present.
“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.” The science fiction is a medium for a love story, not a cheesy or unrealistic one, but a deep enduring love in for the long haul of life and hardship, told from both his and her perspective, and how time travel affects their lives and relationship. He can never predict where or when he will jump the time/space continuum, but when he does, he is drawn toward significant events and people in his life. It is about a guy who involuntarily travels time. “Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?” Rarely is such an original idea portrayed with such vivid language so you believe the time travel possibility and the characters are almost people you know. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is one of those stories that pulls you into the characters’ lives and leaves you wanting more, mulling over the scenes and premise for days after you’ve reluctantly turned the last page. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.īook Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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.Ĭlare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals–steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. 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. Theme: Love, Time, Fate Vs Free Will, Family, Memory and the Past, Versions of Realityīook Summary: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerĪudrey 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.
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