by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves4 Stars
Setting: Barcelona, Spain
531 pages
Published 2005
Ellie's Review
This was a surprisingly good book! I really enjoyed the writing - the language is beautiful and Zafon is simply talented. Graves did a wonderful job translating the novel from Spanish. On top of that, the plot is really, really good. It's nicely dark and twisted but nothing to give me nightmares.
Book Summary
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.
See Ellie's Review of Zafon's novel The Shadow of the Wind.
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