Dans la bibliothèque de son université, Zachary Ezra Rawlins trouve un livre mystérieux, sans titre ni auteur. Il découvre avec stupéfaction qu'y est décrite, noir sur blanc, une anecdote de son enfance qu'il n'a jamais répétée à personne. Tout y est : la fausse porte, peinte en trompe-l'oeil, l'épée, l'abeille, jusqu'à l'odeur de la sauge... A l'époque, il n'avait pas osé l'ouvrir. Une seconde chance lui est donnée de prendre, par un labyrinthe de mots et d'histoires, le chemin de la mer sans étoiles. Un monde merveilleux fait de tunnels tortueux, de cités perdues et d'histoires à préserver, quel qu'en soit le prix...
Il est arrivé comme par enchantement, dressant sous le ciel étoilé ses chapiteaux noir et blanc : Le Cirque des rêves.
Approchez, Mesdames et Messieurs, petits et grands, entrez ! Ici se déroule plus que tours et acrobaties. Sous vos yeux ébahis, la véritable magie est à l'oeuvre : deux jeunes illusionnistes, Celia et Marco, s'affrontent dans un combat magique pour lequel ils sont entraînés depuis l'enfance. Voués à se mesurer dans le plus prodigieux des défis, ils sont adversaires. Mais entre eux, une magie plus grande opère, celle de l'amour.
Une passion ensorcelante qui pourrait leur être fatale...
Aucun sortilège n'est, a priori, impliqué pour expliquer la difficulté que l'on a à lâcher le livre une fois celui-ci entamé : il y a juste le talent de son auteure, dont l'écriture distanciée se révèle envoûtante.
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Erin Morgenstern is the author of The Night Circus, a bestseller that has enchanted readers around the world and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in Theatre from Smith College, an ever-growing collection of jewellery made from skeleton keys, and a cat on her lap. She lives in Massachusetts.
A fantastical 78-card tarot deck and guidebook hand-painted by the award-winning author of the spellbinding bestseller The Night Circus.
Welcome to The Phantomwise Tarot. This black-and-white world is a little bit circusy, a little bit Wonderland, and a little bit nocturnal phantasia of its own invention. It is a mix of myth and fairy tale, where each individual you meet may be an illusion, reflection, or distortion.
When Erin Morgenstern was working on her international bestseller The Night Circus, she began a creative exercise to better understand the complexities of the tarot. This painted series captures the themes of each of the 78 cards in a traditional Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck with equal parts whimsy and mystery. Archetypal figures like The Fool, The Hierophant, and The Lovers emerge from dark skies and swirling clouds. The ravens may not be what they seem. The cats know more than they'll ever tell. The accompanying guidebook offers interpretations of the cards and suggested spreads for tarot readings for beginners and expert readers alike.
These cards have waited patiently for over a decade to find their way into the world. Please welcome them into yours.
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.
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads:
Opens at Nightfalll Closes at Dawn As the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to flicker, as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies. When the tents are all aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign appears.
Le Cirque des Rêves The Circus of Dreams.
Now the circus is open.
Now you may enter.
