The Green Hand and Other Stories #[nn]

Nicole Claveloux's singular vision fills every corner of this New York Review of Books collection, whose cover art alone signals something wonderfully strange. The top panel bursts with dense, surreal foliage and a hovering watering can, while below, a golden figure strides through a dreamlike landscape of fantastical architecture and looming stone forms rendered in bold blues and yellows. With an introduction by Daniel Clowes and translations by Édith Zha and Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Green Hand and Other Stories arrives in 2017 as a genuinely compelling showcase of Claveloux's offbeat, imaginative draftsmanship.