Caraval: Enter the magical and mesmerising world of Caraval with the first book in the global bestselling series
Stephanie Garber's debut novel arrives with a striking new cover, and it's every bit as theatrical as its reputation suggests. This Sunday Times bestselling fantasy centres on two sisters whose lives have been quietly suffocating under the control of a cruel father, and whose one shared dream is Caraval, a once-yearly spectacle in which the audience doesn't simply watch but actually takes part. Scarlett has spent years longing for an invitation from the comfort of tiny Trisda. When it finally arrives, the relief is short-lived. Within hours of the sisters reaching Caraval's glittering grounds, the younger one, Tella, has vanished, taken by the enigmatic Legend, the show's elusive and not entirely trustworthy architect. What follows is part love story, part puzzle box. Scarlett is warned repeatedly that nothing at Caraval is genuine, that every strange encounter and apparent crisis is just performance. The trouble is, she can't afford to believe that. If she's wrong, Tella is gone for good. Garber writes with a showman's instinct for tension, layering illusion over illusion until you're genuinely unsure what to trust. The atmosphere is thick and strange, the kind of story that makes the real world feel a little flat by comparison. Readers have called it obsession-inducing, and honestly, it's not hard to see why.
- Author: Stephanie Garber
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: 978-1399633772
- Pages: 416 pages