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The Prisoner of Heaven

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'This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN

'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POST

Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a a mysterious figure with a porcelain hand enters the Sempere bookshop, threatening to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades.

His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s - the early days of Franco's dictatorship and the very heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

The Prisoner of Heaven is a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

Editions (2)

ISBN9781780222851
PublisherOrion Publishing Co
Publication Date04/11/13
Pages336

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  • 5.0

    i have a feeling that carlos ruiz zafon didn't wrote the books, i mean he technically wrote it, but when you read the book, you will feel that its really the protagonist who really wrote the book -- zafon is only an organon to convey the story that the character in the story wrote. did i even make sense? no, well it did make sense inside my head, though. i was awed and amazed how carlos ruiz zafon manages to combine the events in the angel's game and shadow of the wind with ease, clarity, consistency and smoothness. i think, the prisoner of heaven, is kind of a bridge that connects the story of its predecessors. the story is very instantaneous, it covers a lot of grounds that answered some questions but also give birth to new questions and mystery, which leads to to the conclusion that there is going to be a fourth book -- this gives me an impression that the first three books is only a glimpse of the entire cemetery of forgotten books universe.

    Sep 29, 2022

  • svenja08
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    5.0

    Genialer Dritter Teil! "Der gefangene des Himmels" verbindet in einzigartiger Weise die ersten beiden Teile miteinander und man trifft viele Protagonisten wieder die einem im ersten Teil sehr ans Herz gewachsen sind!

    Feb 3, 2023

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