Author: Erin Morgenstern
You’re at a circus, and you watch the magician do his tricks with a feeling tugging at your heart. Anticipation, a sense of revelry…that’s what magic does to you. It transports you to somewhere beautiful and impenetrable; suspended between reality and imagination. Welcome to The Night Circus.
Transported back to the end of the 19th century, to the start of gentrification, the world of top hats and elegant dresses; that is when the story of The Night Circus is born. Haunting and extravagant, the story starts with a vague challenge that would expand to the coming years. It brings together two characters, to a circus that you could fathom only in your dreams.
Morgenstern creates a world so beautiful that I ache for it to be real. It is more than a novel about the magic that lies within each and every one of us, or a novel about truth and its importance, its message is much grander; it’s a novel that will help you through difficult times, a novel which you will always remember… a story you will always want to revisit.
Rare are the books that enrapture me from the very sentence, but Erin Morgenstern succeeded, from the very first phrase, to absorb me in her enchanting world of mischief, illusion, manipulation and wonder. A world I would so love to live in.
There are no words that describing my feelings. All you need to know is that this novel, this story, is enchanting. It is my gift to you, to those who are starting a new academic year, to those coming back to the long work hours after a relaxing summer and a blessed Ramadan. Read it, cherish it, because everyone needs a little magic and wonder in life.
By Azza El Masri
