---

Hubert is a solitary man who shapes his life by going to museums. He talks to few people and only about museums and art. When his neighbour downstairs, a lonely woman, tries to seduce him, he doesn´t understand. He takes photos of the pictures he likes - usually of beautiful women - and paints copies of the paintings at home. There is only one real woman who fascinates him; she lives in the opposite building and he can see her balcony from his window.

One of the most beautiful graphic novels Jonathan Cape has ever published, Hubert marks the beginning of a great career.

---

"Gijsemans, meanwhile, is one to watch." James Smart Guardian

---

Ben Gijsemans (Author)
Ben Gisjsemans was born in 1989. He studied audiovisual arts and comics in Ghent and Brussels. The first chapter of Hubert was his thesis. Hubert is his first book. www.bengijsemans.com

Julia Blackburn (Translator)
Julia Blackburn has written nine books of non-fiction, a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper´s Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.

---