“[Zafón's] visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself."--"USA Today"
"[A] rip-roaring Gothic mystery. . . .  Will keep you glued to your deck chair."--"Seattle Times
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"A wickedly clever tale."--"Miami Herald"
 
“Ruiz Zafón’s narrative twists and soars, part dream and part slippery reality brought to live in vivid detail…. A book for story lovers: expansive, rich and slow to digest.”"—Denver Post"
 
"Zafón can write up a storm. . . . A dream from which it would be imprudent to awake."--"The Washington Post"
 
“Absorbing.... Offers not only plenty of plot intricacies and mystery but also a lyrical style of writing.... A literary centaur in which a meditation on the craft of writing is combined with a thriller.” —"Los Angeles Times"
 
"A love letter to all things literary, and a paean to the power of the written word.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON, author of The Shadow of the Wind and other novels, is one of the world's most read and best-loved writers. His work has been translated into more than forty languages and published around the world, garnering numerous international prizes and reaching millions of readers. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles.