Il debutto della scrittrice è stato un grandissimo hit. The Night Circus è stato pubblicato nel Settembre del 2011, e ha attratto fan di Harry Potter, così come di Neil Gaiman e Susanna Clarke. La prima stampa ha venduto più di 170.000 copie in 30 paesi. L’opera vinse un Alex Award dall’American Library Association, il Locus Award per Best First Novel, una nomina nel Goodreads Fantasy Award, e rimase per sette settimane nella lista dei Best Seller del The New York Times.
Il 5 Novembre 2019, attraverso la casa editrice Doubleday, Erin Morgenstern pubblicò il suo secondo romanzo, The Starless Sea.
Si tratta di un libro che parla di storie, dedicato agli amanti di mondi mistici e balli in maschera e drink elaborati. Non ha un plot semplice o lineare, ma è un miscuglio eterogeneo di narrativa moderna, favole folk, racconti dentro racconti, e un mondo senza stelle al quale—in un modo o nell’altro—gira intorno tutta la storia.
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Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable knowledge that he is meant for another place. When he discovers a mysterious book in the stacks of his campus library he begins to read, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities, and nameless acolytes. Suddenly a turn of the page brings Zachary to a story from his own childhood impossibly written in this book that is older than he is.
A bee, a key, and a sword emblazoned on the book lead Zachary to two people who will change the course of his life: Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired painter, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances. These strangers guide Zachary through masquerade party dances and whispered back room stories to the headquarters of a secret society where doorknobs hang from ribbons, and finally through a door conjured from paint to the place he has always yearned for. Amid twisting tunnels filled with books, gilded ballrooms, and wine-dark shores Zachary falls into an intoxicating world soaked in romance and mystery. But a battle is raging over the fate of this place and though there are those who would willingly sacrifice everything to protect it, there are just as many intent on its destruction. As Zachary, Mirabel, and Dorian venture deeper into the space and its histories and myths, searching for answers and each other, a timeless love story unspools, casting a spell of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a Starless Sea.
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