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From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.
The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.
Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed — a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
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literature, Translations into English, Booksellers and bookselling, Spanish literature, thrillers, suspense fiction, Novela española, Spanish authors, Autores españoles, Fiction, Antiquarian booksellers, Journalists, Authors, Detective and mystery fiction, Materiales en español, Novela de misterio, Spanish language materials, Novela, Autores españoles, Novela española, Novela de suspense, Spanish fiction, Ficción, Libreros anticuarios, Autores espanoles, Novela espanola, Large type books, Novelists, Schriftsteller, Anonymität, Lebenssinn, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-07-05, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, suspense, Authors, fiction, Barcelona (spain), fiction, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Journalistes, Romans, nouvelles, Écrivains, Fiction, general, Spanish AuthorsShowing 10 featured editions. View all 34 editions?
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Gra anioła
2014, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie MUZA
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El Juego del Ángel
2013?, Vintage Español
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The Angel's Game
2010, Windsor | Paragon
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El Juego del Ángel
2010-05, Editions France Loisirs, FRANCE LOISIRS
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The Angel's Game
2009, Doubleday
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Il gioco dell'angelo: romanzo
2008-10, Mondadori
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El Juego del Ángel
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En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.
Con estilo deslumbrante e impecable precisión narrativa, el autor de La Sombra del Viento nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona de El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance y tragedia, a través de un laberinto de secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasión y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.
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