Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel

Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel

ReviewIt's a turning-point book, but one that can live on a coffee-table like a beating heart. I've seen nothing so rare, curious and beautiful in a long time.--DBC Pierre, author of 'Vernon God Little' and 'Lights Out in Wonderland'The illustrations are Goya meets comic-book, the text is Perfume and Pan's Labyrinth, Gogol, Calvino and Casanova's memoirs of Venice all in one. Extraordinary. --Kate Holden, author of 'In My Skin' and 'The Romantic'Think back to your first trip with Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole, or how it felt to enter the Matrix after Neo takes the red pill. Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel takes you down a similarly twisting path.It's excitingly different to many of the books I read. Beyond being a well-crafted text, it's a work of art in its own right. --Paul Burman in 'The View From Here'Jonathan Walker has successfully created a grubby and brutal otherwordly tone reminiscent of Patrick Suskind's Perfume. --Jen Breach in 'The Big Issue'Inspired by Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Uncanny X-Men, this surreal, darkly beautiful, and unsettling graphic novel about five wounded orphans is by turns hilarious and horrific, grotesque and tenderOn an unnaturally dark night, an unnaturally black dog took a baby from its cradle. Behave, child, or the same might happen to you!In a cruel and arbitrary world, where disturbing lapses in logic are commonplace, five orphans must face their traumatic origins. Gabriella is a crippled angel, haunted by her inability to interpret prophecies. Cur is the rabid leader of a sect of dogs, desperate to escape his inheritance. Cuckoo is a gambler with a wax face determined to find a fixed identity before his luck runs out. Magpie is a thief in search of the perfect photographic subject, but terrified of going blind. Crow is a leper trying to distill the essence of death as an antidAbout the AuthorJonathan Walker has studied and lectured on the history of Venice for more than 10 years. Dan Hallett is an artist, textile designer, and illustrator. They previously teamed up together on Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy.