The Storm of Echoes

The arks are collapsing, one after another, and nobody knows what the one responsible looks like. Ophelia and Thorn, now deeply in love but obliged to keep their bond secret, press on with their separate investigations into God's code and the mysterious figure of the Other, whose devastating power is sending whole pieces of the world plunging into the void.

Their search leads them to the Observatory of the Deviations, an institute wrapped in absolute secrecy and run by a sect of mystical scientists, where a philanthropic psychiatric clinic is a front for terrifying experiments. It is there that they hope to find the truth that has always been hidden behind the mirror, and a way to stop the collapses and bring the world back into balance.

Translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle, this is the conclusion of Christelle Dabos's inventive, slow-burning fantasy of floating arks, mirror travel and objects that remember.