โ Scribed by Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn
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'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...' In May 1980, 15-year-old รscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts... His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes รscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m. precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings. When รscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets. Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn was born in Barcelona and is the author of seven novels including THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. He is one of the world's most read and best-loved writers. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages and published around the world, garnering numerous international prizes and reaching millions of readers. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles.
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Reprinted for the first time in English since it’s Spanish publication in 1999, Marina is a cult favorite for older teens in Carlos’s home country, hailed as the mystery that led to the internationally bestselling Shadow of the Wind.
**A gothic tale for readers of all ages from the author of the bestselling _The Shadow of the Wind_.** Barcelona, 1980. Oscar Drai finds himself drawn to an old dilapidated mansion where he meets the captivating and elusive Marina. She leads him to the cemetery to witness a mysterious ritual: on th
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รscar Drai se marchรณ huyendo de sus recuerdos, pensando ingenuamente que, si ponรญa suficiente distancia, las voces de su pasado se acallarรญan para siempre. Ahora ha regresado a su ciudad, Barcelona, para conjurar sus fantasmas y enfrentarse a su memoria. La macabra aventura que le marcรณ en su juvent