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The Angel's Game (Paperback)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Author)

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From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 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.
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"The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets I could capture on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen . . ."
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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.
Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in the "Shadow of the Wind" and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon's long-awaited follow-up to his international bestseller THE SHADOW OF THE WIND contains many themes familiar to fans of that breakthrough novel--a writer haunted by a mysterious past, a mansion being slowly swallowed by shadows, secret dealings in the gothic alleys of Barcelona, and the ubiquitous specter of lost love. David Martin is the writer, wasting away his days churning out lurid stories under a pseudonym, while the walls of the home where he is sheltered steadily crumble and disintegrate around him. David has a single supporter, his friend and publisher Pedro Vidal, who seems to enjoy all the worldly success that David probably deserves, but lacks. David eventually surrenders to his hopelessness and accepts a writing assignment from a suspicious figure named Andrea Corelli, a task which will forever alter David's existence. As former associates begin to turn up dead, David recognizes an increasing confluence between his own dark past and the tale he is now concocting. He finds he must confront Corelli at the crossroads between the past and the present, fiction and reality, good and evil, to determine the eternal status of his soul.

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