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Amagical mystery tour 魔幻神秘之旅 The Night Circus. By Erin Morgenstern. 《午夜马戏团》,艾琳摩根斯坦著。 Magic in fiction has had a renaissance in the pastdecade, with the success of J.K. Rowling and PhilipPullman. In this respect Morgenstern s debut, TheNight Circus, is right on trend. The book has manyof the ingredients of a conventional fairy tale:cruel parenting, blighted love and a life-and-deathcontest. But ordinary elements combined with flair deserve to be recognised, and TheNight Circus is a beguiling, gripping read, which is sure to be a commercial hit. 近十年来，随着JK罗琳的和菲利普普尔曼的成功，小说中的魔法元素大有复兴繁荣的趋势。在此方面，艾琳摩根斯坦的第一部小说《午夜马戏团》正好赶上了潮流。这本书有着传统童话故事里都有的情节：严酷残忍的父母，被阻挠的感情，生死攸关的斗争，但这些普通的情节被作者运用其天赋将它们串起来时，这本小说焕然一新，值得一读。情节扣人心弦，读者读起来欲罢不能，它肯定会很很畅销。 Le Cirque des Rves, the circus of dreams, arrives without warning and opens at dusk. Acelebration of the senses for its late-19th-century audience, its black-and-white tents host atattooed contortionist, an ice garden, a wishing tree and a labyrinth with a dizzyingnetwork of chambers, such as one piled high with suitcases and another bedded withsnowflakes. | 
