Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fiction R85m
When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his
boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven
days and seven nights.
His story begins
when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of
the city. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre
ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten
o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak
descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.
When
Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that
transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats
and actresses, inventors and tycoons--and reveals a dark secret that
lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.
(From publisher.)
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