Showing results by author "Erin Morgenstern"

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.

In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. Although there are acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists, the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle. Some tents contain clouds, some ice.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a strange book hidden in the library stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to a subterranean library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. 

Er kommt ohne Ankündigung und hat nur bei Nacht geöffnet: der Cirque des Rêves - Zirkus der Träume...

Cirkusset ankommer uden varsel. Der er ingen forudgående bekendtgørelser, ingen opslag på lygtepæle eller plankeværk i byen, ingen omtale eller annoncer i lokale aviser. Der er simpelt hen der, hvor det ikke var i går. 1886: Et omrejsende cirkus, hvis lige aldrig er set, vækker opsigt. Når tusmørket falder på, åbnes portene til Nattens Cirkus, og indenfor venter en forunderlig verden i sort og hvidt. Stribede telte står langs endeløse, bugtede stier og lokker med glansfulde numre af trapezartister og ildslugere, slangemennesker og illusionister. På den store plads brænder et bål med hvide flammer, og røgen i den fortættede luft blandes med en duft af karamel og kanel.