Through the Looking Glass. Book 1. Bound by Cold (4th ed.)

Publisher KompasGid
ISBN 978-5-00083-568-5
Paper: Offset
Number of pages: 334
Binding: Hardcover
Author:
Christelle Dabos

Somewhere in the universe, like giant airships, arks soar—remnants of a civilization. Twenty-one refuges for people, twenty-one worlds with their own laws and customs. The inhabitants of each ark possess unique abilities: to restore objects with a touch, create illusory objects, or even inflict pain with the power of thought. Ophelia has only two abilities: to read and to pass through mirrors. To read various things, that is, to see their history, to feel the emotions of all the people who have ever touched them—that is true happiness! But… goodbye, beloved home of the Family Archives! Goodbye, familiar, peaceful life! Goodbye, Family! Ophelia’s life is turned upside down the day she learns that she is to be married, and there is no way to refuse. The young woman will have to leave her native Anima and travel to the Pole. And this ark is so far away that it will be impossible to fly back to Anima through the mirrors… Her fiancé, the aristocrat Thorn, is also not at all happy to meet her. Why? Why would anyone need to move the unassuming reader Ophelia to the cruel Pole, to unite opposites? This mystery is yet to be solved.

The "Through the Looking-Glass" tetralogy by French writer Christelle Dabos (born in 1980) is an entire alternative reality, intricate and unpredictable, yet thought out down to the smallest detail. The worldwide print run of the first volume exceeds 500,000 copies, and the French-language internet is filled with fan art based on the stories of Ophelia. The world created by Christelle Dabos is a phenomenon just like "Harry Potter" once was: it is no coincidence that the writer’s books have been honored with numerous prestigious awards. For young adults.