En la turbulenta Barcelona de los anos 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho mas.
Con un estilo deslumbrante e impecable el autor de La Sombra del Viento, nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance y tragedia, a traves de un laberinto de traicion y secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasion y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From the author of the international
phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting masterpiece about love,
literature, and betrayal. Like his previous novels, Zafon’s The Angel’s Game, is set in
Barcelona and also revisits the mysterious Cemetery. It is, however, neither
a sequel nor a prequel, but an independent narrative that elaborates a
coherent, increasingly complex fictional universe.
In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martin is a pulp fiction
writer struggling to stay afloat. Holed up in a haunting abandoned mansion in
the heart of Barcelona, he furiously taps out story after story, becoming
increasingly desperate and frustrated. Thus, when he is approached by a
mysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems almost too good to be
real, David leaps at the chance. But as he begins the work, and after a visit
to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a connection
between his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and that
the publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own. Once again,
Ruiz Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a breathtaking
tale of intrigue, romance, and tragedy.
The extraordinary tale that follows is many things at once: mystery, love
story, supernatural thriller, historical drama, gothic romance, and
meditation on the primal importance of stories, of narrative itself. As the
author reminds us throughout this novel, books have souls, and reflect the
souls of both their readers and their writers. The
Angel’s Game beautifully illustrates this
proposition, and offers further proof that Carlos Ruiz Zafon was one of the
most compelling–and unpredictable–storytellers of the modern era.
