The One Hundred Nights of Hero A Graphic Novel [Hardcover]

ANew York Timesbestseller
An NPR Best Book of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016

In the tradition ofThe Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world.

In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights, he can have his castle--and Cherry.

But what Jerome doesn't know is that Cherry is in love with her maid Hero. The two women hatch a plan: Hero, a member of the League of Secret Story Tellers, will distract Manfred by regaling him with a mesmerizing tale each night for 100 nights, keeping him at bay. Those tales are beautifully depicted here, touching on themes of love and betrayal and loyalty and madness.

As intricate and richly imagined as the works of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's inHark! A Vagrant, Isabel Greenberg'sOne Hundred Nights of Herowill capture readers' hearts and minds, taking them through a magical medieval world.Isabel Greenberg is a writer and illustrator who lives and works in North London. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton in 2010, and has worked for NoBrow Press, Seven Stories Press, and Solipsistic Pop. She is the winner of the 2011 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize. Greenberg's art perfectly suits the stories she's telling and the tone she's telling them in. Her rough line work is reminiscent of Kate Beaton'stHark! A Vagrantand Emily Carroll'sThrough the Woods, and lends the stories, and their world, a folkloric charm. --Entertainment Weekly

You've never encountered a gathering of fables as funny and Sapphic as this graphic novel. --O, the Oprah Magazine
Greenberg is a staunch believer in the power of stories...readerlsë