When we look at the 16th-century tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn, we all know the unicorn is a metaphor, not a real creature with a stable and its own supply of apples.ĭetail from The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. The novel reads like panel after panel of mythic illustrations: it expects a certain acceptance of unlikely images, and that’s hardly an unfamiliar mode of thought. Nobody explains why the Starless Sea is honey, or how a honey sea isn’t full of dead flies.
There is no logic that binds these lovely set piece tableaux. On Dorian’s back is a gorgeous tattoo, the story of the Owl King.
At the mysterious Collector’s Club, Allegra assembles the doorhandles of every door to the lower world she has dismantled, and displays them in mobiles hanging from the ceilings. Deep down in the hidden world is an ice statue of Fate, and tiny ships stand frozen on her dress. Although the core of the novel is a simple story about a young man who wants to know his fate, these other strands make such a complex tapestry that the images blur and warp.Įach image is assuredly beautiful. Sometimes these are self-contained fairytales, sometimes snippets of other characters’ backstories, or even the accounts of nightmares written down by a sailor who folds them into stars and casts them away. The Starless Sea, though, is 500 pages long, and Zachary’s story intertwines with many others. 'The only response to this novel is simply: wow.Erin Morgenstern’s second novel arrives eight years after her bestselling debut The Night Circus, and summarised like this, the plot is clear. With the lives of everyone at the Circus of Dreams at stake, they must test the very limits of the imagination, and of their love.Ĭomplete the gorgeous anniversary collection with The Starless Sea, the second novel from the author of the The Night Circus, out now. But behind the glittering acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists a fierce competition is underway.Ĭelia and Marco are two young magicians who have been trained since childhood for a deadly duel.
A sign hanging upon an iron gates reads:įull of breath-taking amazements and open only at night, Le Cirque des Rêves seems to cast a spell over all who wander its circular paths. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Rediscover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read with a different kind of magic, now in a stunning anniversary edition to mark 10 years since it's paperback debut.
0 kommentar(er)
