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The Night CircusA Novel

Erin Morgenstern

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The Night Circus

By: Erin Morgenstern

Narrarated by: Jim Dale

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.

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10.31.11
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
2011 | Label: Random House Audio

An old-world circus that truly transports
What kind of circus is open only at night? With enough romance and mystique to fill a 19th Century Big Top, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus is as much an escape as the novel’s nocturnal Le Cirque des Rêves. Wherever the tents are set up — London, Rome or New York — Le Cirque attracts a cultish following. The Night Circus will entice the Harry Potter crowd with its inventive, YA-friendly cast; namely Celia and Marco, a pair of illusionists in love, and Celia’s father, Hector (AKA Prospero the Enchanter), who is already a legend before his untimely death. Adding to its charms, The Night Circus is narrated by Englishman Jim Dale, who lent his voice to the Potter series.

With traces of Dickens and Roald Dahl’s macabre, Celia and Marco are an attractive young duo who haven’t escaped childhood unscathed. As a girl, Celia’s father sliced her fingers and taught her to heal them with her mind. Marco, an orphan trained in telekinesis, is closely watched by a guardian and squired by girlfriend Isobel, a tarot reader. (She has thoughts of her own about Celia.) As Le Cirque des Rêves travels the globe, Marco and Celia encounter the realistic obstacles that come with love. The debut from Morgenstern — also a tarot card creator — is lushly descriptive, and full of more fantastical flights than a trapeze artist. Divided into diary-like vignettes, the reader gets a taste of an old-world circus

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