[lecture en cours n°1] The Night Circus de Erin Morgenstern
En ce moment, je lis un livre que j'ai reçu à Noël et dont j'ai énormément entendu parler : The Night Circus de Erin Morgenstern, aux éditions Anchor Books. Il a été traduit en français par Sabine Porte pour les éditions Flammarion mais je tenais à le lire dans sa langue d'origine. C'est un livre que je lis avec délectation. Je prends mon temps, savourant chaque mot, chaque phrase. Un régal !
Je vous ferai une revue complète à l'issue de ma lecture (j'en suis à la page 169 sur 508) mais en attendant je vous laisse avec le résumé tiré du site Goodreads.
"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."