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E-book The Night Circus

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The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressedto him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl. The lawyer who escorts her to the theater refuses to explain despite the manager’s protestations, abandoning her as quickly as he can with nomore than a shrug and the tip of a hat. The theater manager does not need to read the envelope to know who the girl is for. The bright eyes peering out from under a cloud of unrulybrown curls are smaller, wider versions of the magician’s own. He takes her by the hand, her small fingers hanging limp within his. She refuses to remove her coat despite the warmth of the theater, giving onlyan adamant shake of her head when he asks her why. The manager takes the girl to his office, not knowing what else to do with her. She sits quietly on an uncomfortable chair beneath a line of framed posters advertising past productions, surrounded by boxes of tickets and receipts. The manager brings her a cup of tea with an extra lump of sugar,
but it remains on the desk, untouched, and grows cold. The girl does not move, does not fidget in her seat. She stays perfectly still with her hands folded in her lap. Her gaze is fixed downward, focusedon her boots that do not quite touch the floor. There is a small scuff on one toe, but the laces are knotted in perfect bows. The sealed envelope hangs from the second topmost button of her coat, until Prospero arrives. She hears him before the door opens, his footsteps heavy and echoing in the hall, unlike the measured pace of the manager who has come andgone several times, quiet as a cat.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

823 MOR t

Penerbit

New York : Doubleday & Company.,

Deskripsi Fisik

168 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780385534642

Klasifikasi

823

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

English Fiction

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