The Prisoner Of Heaven Av Carlos Ruiz Zafon

<p><b>''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'' <i>GUARDIAN</i><br><br><i>''</i>Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels'' <i>WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br><br>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 Ferm¿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.<br><br>His appearance plunges Ferm¿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.<br><br><i>The Prisoner of Heaven</i> is a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge set in a dark