The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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’. Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books, he wants to buy this expensive edition. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet, a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.

However something appears to be bothering him.ĭaniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel’s father at Sempere & Sons. The prisoner of heaven by Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020, author. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. The prisoner of heaven Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives.THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate.

Internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates 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.īarcelona, 1957. Zafón focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn't let go.' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. 'A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real.An enthralling read and a must-have for your library.

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón