THE PURPLE NOTEBOOK
The Purple Notebook
Fiction & the illustrated book
The Purple Notebook is an artisanal publishing house. We create hand-bound books on special paper, each copy individually numbered. Our books can be prepared and delivered in any language.
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Beneath the Water
Fernando Zamora’s novel, first published in Mexico in 2002. The Mexican Revolution is reimagined through private life, desire, the identity of Hugo/Isabel and the violence embedded in the historical construction of masculinity.
The Cypria
A reconstruction of the lost epic in which the love of Paris and Helen sets the heroic world at war. Mythic narrative, memory of a film and the handmade book meet in a work in progress.
White Nights
Белые ночи
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in an illustrated bilingual edition: the Dreamer’s perspective in English and Nastenka’s in Russian.