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THE CITY OF MIST - CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN KARTONIERT...

?Ruiz Zafón's visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.??USA Today Return to the
mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous
collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and
The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection
of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary
journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories  most of them never
before published in English  The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters  unique
situations  and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books
quartet. The stories are mysterious  imbued with a sense of menace  and told with the warmth 
wit  and humor of Zafón's inimitable voice. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers
that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his
heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona  with plans for
building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes
to write a book like no other  each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves.
And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to
New York  a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece. Imaginative and
beguiling  these and other stories in The City of Mist summon up the mesmerizing magic of their
brilliant creator and invite us to come dream along with him.

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