Awards

• Commended for Listen Up (Audiobook of the Year) 2011

Overview

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 Reves, 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 per-formers 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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Praise for THE NIGHT CIRCUS: <br> The Night Circus made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book. <br>-- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife <br> If this novel is just cotton candy, it's cotton candy spun from strands of edible silver...With no more lust than a late volume of Harry Potter, Morgenstern manages to conjure up a love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic. When Celia calls their circus a 'wonder and comfort and mystery all together, ' she could have been talking about this book. <br>--Ron Charles, The Washington Post <br> A Romeo and Juliet tale drenched in magic realism, The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations. In short, it's a showstopper. <br> --The Boston Globe<br> <br> Erin Morge

Praise for THE NIGHT CIRCUS: <br> 'Dark as soot and bright as sparks, ' The Night Circus still holds me willingly captive in a world of almost unbearable beauty. This is a love story on a grand scale: it creates, it destroys, it ultimately transcends. Take a bow, Erin Morgenstern. This is one of the best books I have ever read. <br>--Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader <br> A riveting debut. The Night Circus pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it. <br>--Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife <br> Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities -- engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it. <br>--Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology <br> Pure pleasure...Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale

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"ERIN MORGENSTERN is a writer and multimedia artist who describes all her work as being ""fairy tales in one way or another."" She lives in Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition."

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