The Gift - by Zoe Maeve (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent The Gift is a fantastical / horror retelling of the story of Anastasia Nikolaevna and the Romanov family, the last rulers of Imperial Russia before the revolution. Her childhood days are filled playing on the palace grounds, the guards always on watch. She recieves a gift of a camera on her thirteenth birthday and begins to document her days. It is through her dreams however, where her gift of seeing the supernatural is made evident. She witnesses a creature on the edge of her vision. But could this creature actually be real? When the revolution begins, Anastasia's world comes crashing down and she must flee. But something is following her, and it might not be human."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>The Shining</i> meets Sophia Coppola's <i>Marie Antoinette</i> in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent.</b> <p><i>The Gift</i> opens on the snow-blanketed grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western Russia where a moth has come to attend the birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anastasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gilded world, isolated from the society beyond the palace walls despite their dominion over it. After mysteriously receiving a camera on her fifteenth birthday, she begins to document her world, but the gift carries with it a weight she can't yet see. A creature moves on the edge of her vision and stalks her dreams. As the revolution unfolds, the confines of Anastasia's world keep closing in. Something is following her, and it might not be human.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A moth drifts through a palace and we follow, entering a dreamy, surreal, and haunting imagining of the life and last days of the 4th Romanov princess, Anastasia, gorgeously penned in delicate inks. We are caught between the scenes Anastasia captures with her camera, a gift from someone unknown, and the strange figure she glimpses from the corner of her eye. Poignant and powerful, a sensual fever dream building to the inevitable tragic ending, we are enveloped in an ethereal foreboding.<p/>--Jo Treggiari, Governor General Award-nominated author of <i>The Grey Sisters</i>--Jo Treggiari<br><br>Both the pleasures and the eeriness of <i>The Gift</i> are achieved from Maeve's meticulous attention to details- a tense glance, a long shadow, or a hand across a ruffled skirt. This comic is intriguing, unsettling and extremely beautiful. -Lee Lai, creator of <i>Stone Fruit</i>--Lee Lai<br><br>Maeve delicately renders the loneliness and melancholy of a doomed princess in precise, sparsely composed panels awash in the blue of a long winter dream. With its deliberate, suspenseful pacing Maeve commands a poetic mastery of the medium in <i>The Gift</i>. -Drew Shannon, co-creator of <i>The Montague Twins</i>--Drew Shannon<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Zoe Maeve</b> is a comics artist originally from Tkaronto/Toronto who is now based in Tiohtià ke/Montreal. She studied visual arts at Concordia University, where she worked in oil painting, printmaking, and textiles before finding comics. Her work is based in her love of research and she is interested in hauntings, archives, ecologies and other realities. In 2016 her book <i>July Underwater</i> was the recipient of Best English Comic at the Expozine Awards. She currently shares her home with one feisty black cat.
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