carlos ruiz zafón the cemetery of forgotten books

This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment, betrayal and the return of a deadly rival. Then, to Daniel’s surprise, the man inscribes the book with the words ‘To Fermín Romero de Torres, who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future’. Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books, he wants to buy this expensive edition. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet, a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. However something appears to be bothering him.ĭaniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel’s father at Sempere & Sons. His work, which also includes prizewinning young adult novels, has been translated into. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. Carlos Ruiz Zafn is the author of eight novels, including the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Cemetery of Forgotten Books series: The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven, and The Labyrinth of the Spirits.

It is a mesmerising tale of passion, suspicion and betrayal. The quartet’s umbrella title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, refers to a focal location: a secret labyrinthine library in Barcelona, where cherished and threatened texts are protected, and. The bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind takes us back to the shadowy streets of Barcelona and the world of the Sempere and Sons bookshop.Ĭontinuing the story of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven leads us to the enigma at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Carlos ruiz zafón the cemetery of forgotten books