From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon author of the internationalphenomenon The Shadow of the Wind a dazzling pageturner about the perilousnature of obsessi... » 

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon author of the internationalphenomenon The Shadow of the Wind a dazzling pageturner about the perilousnature of obsession in literature and in love. In the turbulent and mysteriousBarcelona of the 1920s David Martin a young novelist obsessed with aforbidden love receives an offer from an enigmatic publisher to write a booklike no other beforea book for which people will live and die. In returnhe is promised a fortune and perhaps much more. Once again the author ofThe Shadow of the Wind takes us into the gothic universe of the Cemetery ofForgotten Books and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue romance andtragedy and a dizzingly constructed labyrinth of secrets where the magic ofbooks passion and friendship blend into a masterful story. «