The Astral Library
A Novel
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- 23,99 €
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- 23,99 €
Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.
Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.
The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This warm, imaginative fantasy feels tailor-made for anyone who’s ever escaped into reading. At the end of any long, lonely, sometimes soul-crushing day, twentysomething Alix retreats into the gorgeously ornate Boston Public Library, where her beloved books are always waiting. There she discovers the secret entrance to a mystical realm where she can literally enter the worlds of classic novels. But as she’s learning the dos and don’ts of this strange, captivating sanctuary and the prickly Librarian who runs it, a dark figure emerges who seems to want it destroyed. Historical fiction star Kate Quinn has tremendous fun with her first venture into fantasy, as she sends Alix and the Librarian through enchantingly familiar literary landscapes. But what really anchor the story are Alix’s resilience, resourcefulness, and hunger to find a world where she truly belongs. The Astral Library is a bighearted adventure that balances wonder and playful humour with gripping suspense and real emotional weight.
