"From the author of The Night Circus comes a wildly fanciful lark that has all the hits: mystery, love, libraries, Harry Potter references, and pirates. “A richly imaginative ode to books and storytelling.this fantasy-filled novel entwines a mysterious underground world with the story of a grad student on a quest to understand his past.” - People I predict readers for whom it will become a holy of holies, one of their most treasured books of all time. I can imagine fan sites devoted to mapping, analyzing and connecting the dots among its fantastical intricacies. The Starless Sea is the kind of book that could spawn a Harry Potter-esque cult. Morgenstern nests a glittering trove of meta-narratives, myths, folkloric fables within a main storyline about a hero’s quest. “A mythical tale…a story about stories, all essentially relating to Fate and Time. "Anyone who’s read Erin Morgenstern’s wildly successful fiction debut, The Night Circus, knows how meticulously she crafts her imaginary worlds. the reader immersed in a multitude of stories, the threads of which gradually weave together to a haunting conclusion."- NPR Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose-in both the mysterious book and in his own life.Ī best book of the year: The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction.
What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians-it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. 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.īewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues-a bee, a key, and a sword-that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks.
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