![]() ![]() Told through Daniel’s earnest narration with flashbacks to the past, this is a suspenseful romp through the cobbled alleys and treacherous history of mid-century Barcelona. Their investigation takes through the Gothic Barcelona of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s imagination, to the 1940s and the early days of the fascist Franco dictatorship - and closer to learning a heart-piercing secret. These words send Daniel and his dear friend Fermín on a quest for a perilous truth that could upend all of their lives. He writes a cryptic inscription on the title page: For Fermín Romero de Torres, who came back from among the dead and holds the key to the future. On an otherwise uneventful day at the family-owned bookshop, a mysterious stranger appears and requests the rare copy of The Count of Monte Cristo that sits in a display case behind the counter. In the Barcelona of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s imagination, there’s always room for intrigue in the shadows that play between the shafts of light in people’s lives. ![]() ![]() Newlyweds Daniel and Bea have a bouncing baby boy, and their dear friend will soon be married. The War, over for a dozen years, is fading into a thing that happened once. ![]() Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (translator) ![]()
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