The Starless Sea: A Novel

The Starless Sea: A Novel

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Beschreibung

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. 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.

Bewildered 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. 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. 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.

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.
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
512
Preis
30.68 €

Beiträge

36
Alle
3.5

Fantasy "für Fortgeschrittene" 😄

🐝🗝⚔️🦉 Dieses Fantasy-Märchen spielt nicht nur in unterschiedlichen Welten, sondern erzählt auch Geschichten aus unterschiedlichen Zeiten, die miteinander verschmelzen. Es geht um den Sohn des Geschichtenerzählers, ein Mädchen und einen Piraten, über gemalte Türen, durch die man gehen, die aber für immer verschwinden können, über Schwerter, Kronen, Bienen, Schlüssel, Federn und Eulen und sogar einen Eulenkönig, über Wächter, Bewahrer und Gefolgsleute über Würfel und Kristallleuchter, ganz viele Katzen und natürlich über Bücher, Bücher, Bücher - eine Unter- und Parallelwelt voller Bücher, die mehr ist, als verborgener Aufbewahrungsort, sondern eine eigene Welt voller Geheimnisse über Liebe, verlorene Städte und Herzen und Geschichten…und nicht zuletzt vom sternenlosen Meer. In diese Welt gerät Zachary Ezra Rawlins, ein Student, der in der Bibliothek ein Buch ohne Cover und ohne Autor entdeckt und in diesem Buch u.a. eine Geschichte liest, die von ihm selbst handelt. Die Autorin hat hier eine Traumwelt für Buch- und Geschichtenliebhaber geschaffen, die so feinsinnig und detailliert beschrieben ist, dass man das Gefühl hat, selbst durch die langen, halbdunklen Gänge zu gehen, erleuchtet durch Kandelaber oder Kerzenschein, in riesige Räume voller Bücher, immer gefolgt von einer Katze, in hotelähnliche Zimmer, wo jede Wünsche durch “die Küche” erfüllt werden und wo Zeit eine ganz andere Rolle spielt …eine verrückte und gleichzeitig faszinierende Reise durch Wunder und Magie, Schnee und Feuer. Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten: entweder man ist einfach nur verwirrt durch die anfangs zusammenhanglosen Geschichten und man gibt auf oder man übersteht diese ersten (Ver-)Wirrungen und der Sog und die Faszination setzen ein. Selten habe ich ein ungewöhnliches Buch gelesen, das mich gleichzeitig so verwirrt und doch fasziniert hat. Was ist Realität, was ist Geschichte, Traum oder Einbildung? Fazit: Wer eine klare Geschichte und Abfolge von Handlungen sucht, für den ist das Buch nichts. Wer sich gern auf Experimente einlässt, den lade ich ein, in diese verrückte Welt(en) einzutauchen und mir zu erzählen, wie die Reise war.

4.5

Please don't ask me what happened in this book, I only know that I love it. ♥️

5

If I had a FRACTION of this woman's creativity and imagination, I mean how can one person craft words so beautiful and dreamlike??? Her books simply feel like coming home to me, stories I will cherish forever ✨

5

Unique and magical

This is an incredible book. I read it again to check if it’s as good as I remember (because it’s been a while) and it is. It’s better than I remember. The way this story unfolds is so unique. I haven’t read anything quite like it.

Unique and magical
5

A magical journey through imagination unlike any other

What a masterpiece: This book offers so so much space to dream and make up your own assumptions. Erin Morgenstern has the one of the most beautiful ways to capture even the smallest of moments and turn them into something poetic. Be prepared to go on your own magnificent journey through time and fate.

A magical journey through imagination unlike any other
5

Unique and mesmerising

Never read a book this confusing, ambitious, thought-through and entirely different than your normal fantasy book. Sometimes the pacing could have been a little faster and I wish I could've seen more of certain characters. But this doesn't take away from how much I enjoyed diving into the stories of the starless sea.

5

CN: alcohol, death, fire, suicidal ideation, forced drug use, removal of a tongue, branding, kidnapping, drowning, animal death If this book was a smell, it would be the smell of old books. If this book was a taste, it would be the taste of honey. If this book was a feeling, it would be the feeling of finally finding a place where you belong. I read and loved The Night Circus when I was younger, but this book... this book made me feel things I didn't know I was capable of feeling. It's magical, atmospheric and breathtakingly beautiful. It's a story about pirates, bees, lovers, swords, doors and keys. But most importantly, it's a story about stories. This book is definitely not for everyone. Some will find it too long, some will find it too confusing, some will just find it boring. But for me, The Starless Sea is the perfect book.

4

Schwierig dieses Buch zu bewerten. So viele Geschichten in diesen 500 Seiten, so verhoben und verwirrend, dass ich es bestimmt 5 mal lesen müsste um alle Zusammenhänge zu verstehen. Hat aber spaß gemacht es zu lesen, daher das ist das wichtigste:)

5

It's been a while since i enjoyed a magical/fantasy/story-driven/idk-what-to-call-it book this much but boy, it made me feel things i didn't know i still could. It reminded me of when i first fell in love with books when i was a child, so thank you for that. And the writing is amazing too. I really tried to take my time with it and i think it deserved it, but i probably could have devoured it in a day or two.

3

The Starless Sea is quite a difficult book for me to review, mainly because I still, after having thought about it for a few days, don’t know what to think about it. There’s a thin line between beautiful, lyrical writing and writing that is just too much. Unfortunately, #erinmorgenstern was so far past this line, the line seemed like a dot to me (hehe, who gets that reference?

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