L'amour ferme les yeux #[nn]

Line Hoven's L'amour ferme les yeux ("Love Closes Its Eyes") arrives from L'Agrume with a cover as quietly charged as its title suggests — a young man and woman rendered in delicate black-and-white linework lean close to one another against a stark black background, their proximity electric with unspoken feeling. The restrained palette, punctuated only by the title's vivid pink lettering, gives the image a tender, almost cinematic intimacy that feels perfectly suited to a story about love and the way it blurs our vision. A compelling and elegantly designed volume from 2013.