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THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957 one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son Julian and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of HE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books he wants to buy this expensive edition. Then to Daniel's surprise the man inscribes the book with the words 'To Fermin Romero de Torres who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future'. This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment betrayal and the return of a deadly rival ...Read More

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  • Foyles

    'This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POSTBarcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a a mysterious figure with a porcelain hand enters the Sempere bookshop, threatening to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades.His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s - the early days of Franco's dictatorship and the very heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.The Prisoner of Heaven is a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

  • Blackwell

    You've read THE SHADOW OF THE WIND - now read what happens next ... Includes Reading Group Notes. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in...

  • BookDepository

    The Prisoner of Heaven : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9781780222851 : : 16 Apr 2013 : You've read THE SHADOW OF THE WIND - now read what happens next . . . Includes Reading Group Notes.

  • 1780222858
  • 9781780222851
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • 11 April 2013
  • Phoenix
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
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