The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemists daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffeneggers spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings.
The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemists daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffeneggers spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings.
