The Prisoner of Heaven
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'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.
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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.
Description
'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.
Book Information
Posts
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.