The Angel's Game

Hardcover, 531 pages

English language

Published Aug. 9, 2009 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-52870-2
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OCLC Number:
868168807

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From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.

The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for …

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  • Journalists -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction
  • Authors -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction
  • Antiquarian booksellers -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction
  • Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction