Diving into "The Starless Sea" is like wandering through an endless, mystical library where every book whispers a different secret. Its beauty is in the way it weaves a complex tapestry of stories within stories that resonate with the love of narratives. For the dreamer who delights in deciphering riddles and cherishes the allure of a good tale, this novel is a magical door to the unknown. Erin Morgenstern's enchanting prose is an invitation to lose yourself in a world as boundless as imagination itself.

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• Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2020)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2019)
• Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2020)

From the New York Times 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 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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