

Morgenstern's circus is not the traditional elephants-and-antic-clowns affair.

Their contest is set against the background of an extravagant Big Top, a twinkling, dazzling, traveling circus that puts down stakes in the dark of night and vanishes before dawn. This fall, Knopf/Doubleday is pinning its hopes on Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, the story of two young magicians pitted against each other in an intricate, mysterious and lifelong competition. Cue publishing-world hysteria a mad dash to find a new fantasy franchise to hook the masses as the Twilight and Hunger Games series exhaust their commercial runs. The last of the Harry Potter books was released in 2007, and the credits have now rolled on all of the Harry Potter films. How?Īs of this summer, we are living in a post-J.K. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Night Circus Author Erin Morgenstern
