From the Inside Flap
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"[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of
the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive
and involving story lines." -Booklist
Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this
haunting, heartbreaking love story.
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito-mute her whole life, orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a
janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective
coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn't know how she'd make it through the day.
Then, one eful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center's most sensitive asset ever: an
amphibious man, captured in the , to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also
magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions...and Elisa can't keep away. Using sign language, the two
learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa's sole reason to live.
But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the , wants
nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything
to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is
on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.
Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release-one story interpreted by two artists in the independent
mediums of literature and film-The Shape of Water is unlike anything you've ever read or seen.
"Most movie novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel that's
accompanying Guillermo del Toro's new movie The Shape of Water is no mere adaptation. Co-author Daniel Kraus' book and
the film tell the same story, of a mute woman who falls in love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature, in two
very different ways." -io9
Praise for The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro
Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture
From the Back Cover
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"[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of
the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive
and involving story lines." -Booklist
Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this
haunting, heartbreaking love story.
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito-mute her whole life, orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a
janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective
coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn't know how she'd make it through the day.
Then, one eful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center's most sensitive asset ever: an
amphibious man, captured in the , to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also
magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions...and Elisa can't keep away. Using sign language, the two
learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa's sole reason to live.
But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the , wants
nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything
to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is
on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.
Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release-one story interpreted by two artists in the independent
mediums of literature and film-The Shape of Water is unlike anything you've ever read or seen.
"Most movie novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel that's
accompanying Guillermo del Toro's new movie The Shape of Water is no mere adaptation. Co-author Daniel Kraus' book and
the film tell the same story, of a mute woman who falls in love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature, in two
very different ways." -io9
Praise for The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro
Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture
About the Author
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Guillermo del Toro is the award-winning director of numerous critically accled feature films, such as Pan's
Labyrinth, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim, and the co-author (with Chuck Hogan) of the bestselling Strain Trilogy. He lives in
California with his wife and two children. Daniel Kraus has landed on Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year
(2015 - The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and has won two Odyssey Awards (for Rotters and Scowler). His novels have
been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Parent's Choice Gold Award winners, Bram
Stoker finalists, and more. He co-authored Trollhunters with Guillermo del Toro.
