β Scribed by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves
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"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his barding school in Barcelona. For seven days and seven nights no one knows his whereabouts...
His story begins in an old quarter of the city, where he meets the strange Marina and her father, GermΓ‘n Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman, her face shrouded be a black velvet cloak. Holding a single rose, she walks to a gravestone that bears no name, only a mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.
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...
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Vijftien jaar later is de herinnering aan die dag bij mij teruggekomen. Ik heb de jongen gezien die in de nevel van station Francia ronddoolde en de naam van Marina lichtte opnieuw op als een verse wond. Allemaal bewaren we een geheim op de zolder van de ziel, achter slot en grendel. Dit is het mijn
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
'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
Γscar Drai se marchΓ³ huyendo de sus recuerdos, pensando ingenuamente que, si ponΓa suficiente distancia, las voces de su pasado se acallarΓan para siempre. Ahora ha regresado a su ciudad, Barcelona, para conjurar sus fantasmas y enfrentarse a su memoria. La macabra aventura que le marcΓ³ en su juvent