Penguin Books, 2005. — 487 p. Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically...
Phoenix, 2009. — 522 p. — ISBN: 0753826496 (ISBN13: 9780753826492) From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I...
Return to the gothic universe of the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books and the winding streets of Barcelona’s old quarter.
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man – David Martin – makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights...
HarperCollins ebooks, 2012. — 36 p. — ASIN B008B7VCBK Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century, “Rose of Fire” tells the story of the origins of the mysterious labyrinthine library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which lies at the heart of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and now The Prisoner of Heaven.
Harper Perennial, 2013. — 278 p. — ISBN: 006220629X (ISBN13: 9780062206299) Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and...
Harper, 2018. — 805 p. — ISBN: 0062668692 (ISBN13: 9780062668691) The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale—a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which...
Phoenix, 2011. — 202 p. — ISBN: 1780220006 (ISBN13: 9781780220000) From the bestselling author of The Shadow of The Wind, the haunting story of a ghostly ship and an age-old curse. In 1943, Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an abandoned house that holds many secrets and stories of its own. Behind the...
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2011. — 281 p. — ISBN: 0297856456 (ISBN13: 9780297856450) A haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2013. — 256 p. — ASIN B00B27ECGS A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the magical beings he has created... A sickly wife locked away in a hidden room... An enigma involving strange lights that shine out from the small island on which an old, disused lighthouse stands... A shadowy creature that hides deep in...
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0316044717 (ISBN13: 9780316044714) "We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine." In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his barding school in Barcelona. For seven days and seven nights no one knows his whereabouts... His story begins in an old...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. – 95 p. Language: English. El Palacio de la Medianoche (1994). Translation: Lucia Graves. In the heart of Calcutta lurks a dark mystery. Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight Palace begins on a dark night when an English lieutenant fights to save newborn twins Ben and Sheere from an unthinkable threat. Despite monsoon-force rains and...
Publisher: Phoenix, 2011. – 63 p. Language: English. El Príncipe de la Niebla (1993). Translation: Lucia Graves. A mysterious house harbors an unimaginable secret. It’s wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they’ve recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things...
Penguin Books, 2005. – 323 p. Original title: La sombra del viento (2001). Translated by Lucia Graves. Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find...
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