num_pages: 295
description: American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that features literate chimpanzees, tragic clowns, idealist brigands, a structuralist Siberian shaman, and a six-foot, two-inch blond aerialist who is part swan and part woman
language: English
title: Nights at the Circus
titlecomplete: Nights at the Circus
characters: Sophie Fevvers, Jack Walser, Colonel Kearney
genres: Magical Realism, Classics, British Literature, Feminism, Historical, Fantasy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 12853
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Vintage Classics