![]() ![]() From then on, he has only one ambition: to become a writer. He finds love and understanding with Sempere, the old bookshop keeper, who becomes a kind of second father to him and who gives him one of the most precious gifts of his life: an old copy of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. ![]() Son to an abusive father, who cannot understand his love for books, and a mother who leaves her family when he’s still very young. Where a young boy, David Martin, is growing up. (1)Īnd so, from almost the first page, you’re drawn into this magical world of Barcelona in the twenties. ![]() ![]() In other words, the wicked, Gothic chick wants your blood”. It’s a book designed to step into the storytelling process and become part of it. The first book, The Shadow of the Wind, he called “the nice, good girl in the family”, its prequel, the Angel’s Game “the wicked Gothic stepsister. The central axis is the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in Barcelona, the city where Zafon was born and which he knows like the back of his hand. A box of stories with four doors to enter “a labyrinth of fictions that could be explored in many directions”. Zafon envisaged four novels that would be part of a fictional universe, with some of the same characters you meet at different points in their lives. But more recently, also Carlos Ruiz Zafon, the Spanish bestselling author and his books on books. For almost a 100 years, it has been Antonio Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia. ![]()
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