![]() She sends Marco letters as often as she can, but it is simply not enough information for Marco. ![]() He tells Isobel about this, and she offers to travel with the circus as well, to keep watch over Celia and her magic performances. In the meantime, a theater producer named Chandresh Christophe Lefevre has invited a group of collaborators to his home for a Midnight Dinner, where he presents them with his new idea for a circus, “like no circus anyone has ever seen.” The group begins immediately, and soon they have found a contortionist named Tsukiko, and begin to audition illusionists Marco, who has taken a job as Chandresh’s assistant, watches Celia Bowen’s audition and recognizes her as his opponent in the competition. On his own, the young man gives himself a name, Marco Alisdair, and quickly meets a young woman named Isobel Martin, a fortune-teller of mysterious origins, who moves in with him. He keeps the boy in isolation, taking him out to see magic shows as part of his education, and puts him up in his own apartment in London when he turns 19. finds his new apprentice in an orphanage and begins his magical lessons as well. burns a ring into Celia’s finger to commit her to the competition. Hector offers Celia as his new competitor, against anyone of Mr. The two magicians have been competing against one another, using their apprentices as proxies, for centuries. A.H., another magician and Hector’s lifelong rival. He begins to train her as a magician and arranges a meeting with Mr. Prospero (whose real name is Hector Bowen) is uninterested in Celia until she begins to make teacups move with her mind, demonstrating innate magical abilities. Celia Bowen is his daughter, and her mother has committed suicide, leaving behind the child and a note. Prospero the Enchanter finishes his magic show to find a five-year-old girl waiting in his dressing room. ![]() After a short prologue describing the circus-“No color at all Black-and-white stripes on grey sky countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them”-the story begins in New York City in 1873. This is the main setting of the novel, though the story jumps back and forth across the globe and throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The novel opens to the mysterious Le Cirque des Rêves, a circus that “arrives without warning” and is only open at night. ![]()
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