Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream (PRE-ORDER)

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Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream 
Chloé Zhao, Jessie Buckley, Agata Grzybowska 
Mack 

Paperback with flaps 
17 x 23 cm 
132 pages 

November 2025 

ISBN 978-1-917651-35-6 
$40 

Available to preorder - this title is due to ship in mid-November

Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream is the debut book by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, 2020), actor Jessie Buckley, and photographer Agata Grzybowska, created during the making of Zhao’s latest film Hamnet (2025).

Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhao’s creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhao’s cinematic storytelling, Buckley’s mesmerising writings, and Grzybowska’s haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare.

Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream unfolds as a quiet companion to the film: not a document of its making, but a powerful reimagining that exists somewhere in the threshold between the worlds of waking and dreaming, reality and illusion, life and death.