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The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before The Shadow of the Wind. '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 Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...

Europa anului 1943 e bîntuită de spectrul războiului, iar familia Carver se hotărăşte să se instaleze într-un orăşel de pe coasta Atlanticului. O pisică neagră şi un orologiu ce măsoară timpul în mod bizar sînt doar primele semne ale unei enigme care se va adîncicu fiecare...

Plasata in Calcutta, in anii ’30 ai secolului trecut, actiunea romanului Palatul de la Miazănoapte debuteaza intr-o noapte intunecoasa, cind un tinar locotenent englez incearca sa salveze doi gemeni abia veniti pe lume de o amenintare inimaginabila. In ciuda vremii ingrozitoare si a...

Un misteriós fabricant de joguines que viu reclòs en una mansió gegantina poblada per éssers mecànics i ombres del passat… Un enigma al voltant d'estranyes llums que brillen entre la boira que envolta l'illot del far. Una criatura de malson que s'oculta en la profunditat del bosc…...

¿Qué sucede cuando una brillante filósofa convierte su biografía en una obra maestra? Por el autor de El arte de pensar, Filosofía ante el desánimo e Incompletos Más de 100.000 lectores 2.ª edició Tras una vida de esfuerzo y tenacidad, Eva, a sus cuarenta y tres años, logra alcanzar...

Los cinco elementos es un concepto que surgió a partir de la antigua medicina china, hace más de dos mil años, cuando los eruditos del país asiático alcanzaron la conclusión de que el universo estaba compuesto por cinco fuerzas: agua, madera, fuego, tierra y metal. Entender estos elementos...

Barcelone, 1979. Óscar, quinze ans, a l'habitude de s'échapper du pensionnat et d'errer dans la ville. Un jour, alors qu'il s'est introduit dans une demeure à l'allure abandonnée, il rencontre Marina qui va briser la solitude de ses escapades quotidiennes. Lorsque la jeune fille l'emmène à la découverte d’une tombe anonyme flanquée d'un papillon noir sur laquelle vient se recueillir chaque jour une femme couverte d'un voile sombre, les deux adolescents décident de mener l'enquête.

The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafón: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great storytellers.

Cette nuit j'ai rêvé que je retournais au Cimetière des Livres oubliés... Dans la Barcelone franquiste des années de plomb, la disparition d'un ministre déchaîne une cascade d'assassinats, de représailles et de mystères. Mais pour contrer la censure, la propagande et la terreur, la jeune Alicia Gris, tout droit sortie des entrailles de ce régime nauséabond, est habile à se jouer des miroirs et des masques. Son enquête l'amène à croiser la route du libraire Daniel Sempere.

As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with...

Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife, that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house, Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star....

“A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real. . . .An enthralling read and a must-have for your library. Zafón focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn’t let go.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer Internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz...

Eine letzte Reise in die magische Erzählwelt von Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Der Friedhof der vergessenen Bücher ist der geheimnisvolle Ort, um den das gesamte Erzähluniversum von Carlos Ruiz Zafón kreist: Eine tief unter Barcelona verborgene Bibliothek, in der die Bücher darauf warten, ihre Seele an ihren Leser weiterzugeben. Zafóns letztes Projekt war es, diesen Ort in Erzählungen weiterwachsen zu lassen. Es entstand ein Geheimfach von Geschichten, das hier zum ersten Mal vollständig geöffnet wird.

Calcutta, May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patricks orphanage.

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from...

A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the magical beings he has created...a sickly wife locked away in a hidden room...an enigma involving strange lights that shine out from the small island on which an old, disused lighthouse stands...a shadowy creature that hides deep in the woods...These are the elements of a mystery will bind 14-year-old Irene to Ismael during one magical summer spent in Blue Bay when her mother takes a job as a housekeeper for the enigmatic toymaker, Lazarus Jann.

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, 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.

Educar a niños felices y sanos emocionalmente es el objetivo de cualquier padre. Para conseguirlo se hace necesaria la formación de personas equilibradas. Esta obra, que pretende ser una guía, además de práctica, capaz de llevar a los lectores a un nivel superior de compresión sobre las dificultades que nos vamos a encontrar por el camino, nos muestra no solo las herramientas necesarias para llevar a cabo de forma exitosa esta tarea, sino que nos traslada a las fuentes de los grandes pensadores de la historia en las que se basan.

A chilling, compelling mystery from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind. When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors...

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 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...