The Prisoner of Heaven: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3

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.

''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 POST

Barcelona, 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.

• | Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2013
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781780222851
• | ISBN-10: 1780222858