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The Angel's Game
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Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It's a spellbinding love story about the power of storytelling.
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In an abandoned mansion in Barcelona, a young man named David Martin makes a living by writing steamy melodramas under a pseudonym. When his own novel receives scathing reviews, it seems his publishers are plotting against him, and David is destined to literary obscurity.
In a locked room deep within the house, he finds letters and photographs hinting at the death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as David struggles with an impossible love.
Then he receives an extraordinary proposal from the French editor Andreas Corelli— a proposal that could make David rich and famous. And a bookseller called Sempere introduces him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
The Angel's Game, a prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, is a tale of lost souls and haunting shadows set amid the winding alleyways of Barcelona during the turbulent 1920s. It is a masterful tale and spellbinding love story about the magic of books and the darkest corners of the heart.
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ISBN: 9781921656712
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 September 2010
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 326g
Pages: 464
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon is the author of five novels. The Shadow of the Wind was a finalist for the Premio Fernando Lara.
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