El Juego del ngel / The Angel’s Game-Fast Shipping

Description

En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 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 más.

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 través de un laberinto de traición y secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasión y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the author of the internationalphenomenon 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 inBarcelona and also revisits the mysterious Cemetery. It is, however, neithera sequel nor a prequel, but an independent narrative that elaborates acoherent, increasingly complex fictional universe.

In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fictionwriter struggling to stay afloat. Holed up in a haunting abandoned mansion inthe heart of Barcelona, he furiously taps out story after story, becomingincreasingly desperate and frustrated. Thus, when he is approached by amysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems almost too good to bereal, David leaps at the chance. But as he begins the work, and after a visitto the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a connectionbetween his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and thatthe publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own. Once again,Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a breathtakingtale of intrigue, romance, and tragedy.

The extraordinary tale that follows is many things at once: mystery, lovestory, supernatural thriller, historical drama, gothic romance, andmeditation on the primal importance of stories, of narrative itself. As theauthor reminds us throughout this novel, books have souls, and reflect thesouls of both their readers and their writers. TheAngel’s Game beautifully illustrates thisproposition, and offers further proof that Carlos Ruiz Zafon was one of themost compelling–and unpredictable–storytellers of the modern era.