Shab-hā-yi sīrk Persiska (Farsi) 2026

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter is one of the landmark works of magical realism and contemporary postmodern literature, challenging the boundaries between reality and imagination. Set in the vibrant and chaotic world of late nineteenth-century circuses, the novel follows the life of a mysterious and celebrated woman known as Fevvers, a performer who claims to have been born with real wings.

Intrigued by her extraordinary story, a skeptical journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind her remarkable existence. Yet the deeper he ventures into the world of the circus and into Fevvers’s captivating narratives, the more elusive the distinction between reality, performance, and myth becomes.

With a distinctly feminist perspective and a language rich in imagination and symbolism, Angela Carter explores themes of identity, power, gender, and social roles. Rather than providing straightforward answers, the novel invites readers to question assumptions and reconsider the nature of truth itself.

Nights at the Circus remains one of Angela Carter’s most celebrated works and is widely regarded as one of the most influential novels in contemporary world literature. Because once someone claims to have wings, humans inevitably spend the next four hundred pages arguing about whether the feathers are real instead of asking why they needed to believe in them in the first place.