Christelle Dabos

Amazon Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2018 One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best YA Books of 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Longlisted for Irish YA prize Great Reads Award Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos' The Mirror Visitor quartet. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world. The World of the Arks Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength. An unforgettable heroine, a rich and bountiful universe, intrigue and suspense: A Winter's Promise is perfect for readers of Margaret Rogerson's An Enchantment of Ravens, Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood, V.E. Schwab's "Shades of Magic" series, Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone, Kenneth Oppel's "Airborne" series, and N.K. Jemisin "Broken Earth" series. Extract: I think we could have all lived happily, in a way, God, me and the others, if it weren't for that accursed book. It disgusted me. I knew what bound me to it in the most sickening of ways, but the horror of that particular knowledge came later, much later. I didn't understand straight away, I was too ignorant.

Book One of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

A Winter's Promise

Ophelia has become Vice-storyteller to Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of the Pole. Now that her powers - and the threat they present - are known to all, she is forced to reveal the nefarious plots that have been brewing in Citaceleste and to throw herself into the political machinations of the Pole. In this perilous situation, the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic fiance. As one after another influential courtier vanishes in suspicious circumstances, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond the Pole's many illusions to the heat of the formidable truth.

The Missing of Clairdelune

La Tempête des échos - Roman

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"A hallucinatory marriage of Pride and Prejudice and A Game of Thrones."--Matthew Skelton, author of the Endymion Spring books In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos's international best-selling Mirror Visitor saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, and Thorn discover that the truth they have been seeking has always been hidden behind the mirror. Christelle Dabos takes us on a journey to the heart of a great game to which the all-too-human affairs of her book's protagonists are ominously connected. The distrust between them has been overcome and now Ophelia and Thorn love each other passionately. However, they must keep their love hidden. Only in this way can they continue their journeys toward an understanding of the indecipherable code of God and the truth behind the mysterious figure of the Other, whose devastating power continues to bring down entire pieces of arks, plunging thousands of innocents into the void. Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the observatory of the Deviations, an institute shrouded in absolute secrecy and overseen by a sect of mystical scientists who secretly conduct terrifying experiments. There, Ophelia and Thorn hope to discover truths that will halt the destruction and death and bring the world back into balance.

Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

The Storm of Echoes

In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants’ growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia’s talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

The Memory of Babel

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En coulisses

Les effondrements se multiplient, de plus en plus impressionnants : Babel, le Pôle, Anima... aucune arche n'est épargnée. Pour éviter l'anéantissement total, il faut trouver le responsable. Trouver l'Autre. Mais comment faire sans même savoir à quoi il ressemble ? Plus unis que jamais, Ophélie et Thorn s'engagent sur des chemins inconnus où les échos du passé et du présent les mèneront vers la clef de toutes les énigmes. Au sommet de son art, Christelle Dabos signe le final éblouissant d’une saga devenue un phénomène et une référence de la littérature fantastique. "L'intelligence psychologique, la finesse du trait, l'humour discret du regard : c'est tout le charme de ces épais volumes." Télérama

La Passe-miroir (Livre 4) - La Tempête des échos

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isse überziehen die Welt der Archen. Einer jagt den nächsten, die Abgründe werden immer größer. Babel, Pol, Anima – keine der Archen bleibt verschont. Die Bewohner müssen ungläubig mitansehen, wie ihre Welt nach und nach auseinanderbricht. Um die unwiederbringliche Zerstörung der Archen zu stoppen, muss so schnell wie möglich der Schuldige gefunden werden. Muss »der Andere« gefunden werden. Aber wie? Wo doch niemand auch nur weiß, wie er aussieht?
Ophelia und Thorn sind so vereint wie nie. Zusammen begeben sie sich auf unbekannte Wege, wo sie die Echos der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart zum Schlüssel all der Rätsel führen werden. Das ungeheuerliche Finale der Saga der Spiegelreisenden.

Die Spiegelreisende, Band 4

Im Sturm der Echos

Fast drei Jahre hat Ophelia Thorn nicht mehr gesehen. Nach seinem plötzlichen Verschwinden musste sie den Pol verlassen und nach Anima zurückkehren. Doch eines Tages macht sie sich heimlich auf den Weg zur Arche Babel, um mehr über Gott herauszufinden und sich auf die Suche nach Thorn zu begeben. In Babel angekommen, einer Arche mit strikten Vorschriften und argwöhnischen Bewohnern, die Robotern mehr gleichen als Menschen, muss Ophelia sich als »Lehrling« am Konservatorium der Guten Familie beweisen. Als in dem Secretarium der Arche eine Zensorin tot aufgefunden wird, die kurz vor ihrem Tod die Werke eines Kinderbuchautors verbrannt hat, erkennt Ophelia fassungslos, wie sehr sie selbst in diese tödliche Geschichte verstrickt ist.
Auf einer Arche, die aus tausend Inseln besteht und wo Menschen mechanisch absurden Gesetzen folgen, muss sich Ophelia allein durch ein immer bedrohlicheres Geflecht an Lügen kämpfen – und kommt auf ihrer Suche nach Thorn der »letzten Wahrheit« riskant nah.

Die Spiegelreisende, Band 3

Das Gedächtnis von Babel

A Winter's Promise / The Missing of Clairdelune /The Memory of Babel

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L'Attraversaspecchi

The Mirror Visitor

The new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Mirror Visitor Quartet Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year. At Here, society is highly stratified, the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year--as all other years--things are not at all as they seem. A self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air. A persecuted outsider delivers himself into permanent exile. A tyrannical upperclassman meets his match. A newly-minted prophetess tests her powers. And, behind the scenes, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into the unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all. Back to school season marks the start of a time-honored cycle of revolution and rebirth in which each must play their part. With Here, and Only Here, Christelle Dabos - author of the international sensation The Mirror Visitor Quartet - gives readers an intriguing and penetrating novel that explores the difficulties of fitting in and the private, individual choices that make up the sometimes abhorrent, always unpredictable Collective.

Here, and Only Here

Christelle Dabos confirme dans ce deuxième tome un talent hors du commun.

Les disparus du Clairdelune

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Par-dessous la peinture, le plâtre et le ciment, à l’intérieur des murs, au fond de l’invisible, je perçois quelque chose que j’arrive pas encore à nommer, quelque chose de foutrement féroce qui habite le bâtiment tout entier et qui me rentre dans les os. Qui fera bientôt partie de moi. Ici ne ressemble à nulle part. Ici n’obéit qu’à ses propres règles. Ici, il y a des Bas, des Hauts, des pairs et des impairs. Et quoi qu’il arrive, tout le monde passe par Ici. Après La Passe-Miroir, Christelle Dabos révèle une nouvelle facette de son talent dans un roman choral vertigineux, addictif et puissant.

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