Can you ever escape your fate?

Three shadows stand outside the house — and Louis and Lise know why the spectral figures are there. The shadows have come for Louis and Lise's son, and nothing anyone can do will stop them. Louis cannot let his son die without trying to prevent it, so the family embarks on a journey to the ends of the earth, fleeing death.

Poignant and suspenseful, Three Shadows is a haunting story of love and grief, told in moving text and sweeping black and white artwork by Cyril Pedrosa.

"Rarely has the succulent appeal of quiet country life been portrayed with such sensual skill as it is in Pedrosa's limpid graphic novel about a boy, his parents and the trio of hooded riders who watch them. Pedrosa adeptly establishes the mood of timeless bucolic idyll immediately, with his swirling, sometimes harshly etched, black-and-white renderings of the land cultivated by hulking farmer Louis; his wife, Lise; and their scampering boy, Joachim. The family's playful antics are overshadowed first by ruminative narration, then by three riders, who watch the family with unnerving patience from the foggy distance. A local witch tells Lise that the 'shadows' have come for Joachim, after which Louis impetuously makes a run for it with his son, warned that he must treasure every moment with the boy. The resulting story is more Appointment in Samarra — style dream than chase, with Louis and Joachim floundering from one mysterious episode to the next, the implacable shadows following, as in a nightmare. French artist Pedrosa's background as a Disney animator is clearest in his exaggerated movements and facial expressions, but the story (inspired by the death of a close friend's young child) is a glorious and revelatory fable, beautiful in its grief." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

"Pedrosa's intriguing, poignant fable unfolds beautifully in both words and pictures. The fluidity of the art reflects Pedrosa's roots in animation....[A] dark, well crafted tale." Booklist

"Pedrosa is a former Disney animator...and his command of styles is impressive, but in this melancholy, hefty black-and-white book, the well-expressed sense of grief and inevitability that come through the storyline predominate even over the art. (Grade: A-)" The Onion AV Club

"[A] nearly perfect graphic novel, a story where the art and words are unified in a way that happens all-too rarely....It's not only the best graphic novel I've read since at least Craig Thompson's Blankets, it's one of the best novels of any kind I've ever seen." ComicMix.com

"Three Shadows is a sometimes subtle, sometimes chaotic, always beautiful book that dares to tackle every parent's deepest fear. Heartbreaking and brilliant by turns, this is required reading." A Fuse #8 Production

"This is clearly a story about love and sacrifice, nobility and fearlessness, but how and why, I can't say. Pedrosa is a marvellous illustrator...and a strange and compelling storyteller." Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net

Cyril Pedrosa began his career in animation, working on the Disney films Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules. He has since become a rising star in a new kind of graphic storytelling, combining the influences of animation and the literary traditions of Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Tolkien to create a unique visual handwriting.