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The Angel's Game
Published 27 September 2010
ISBN 9781921656712
Format Paperback
Extent 464pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $30.00

The Angel's Game

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Paperback
27 Sept 2010
EBook
30 Jan 2012
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Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It's a spellbinding love story about the power of storytelling.

Struggling writer David Martin drives himself to ill-health writing steamy melodramas while he works on his own masterpiece and yearns for the unattainable Cristina. When his novel is published to scathing reviews and is quickly buried, David makes an impossible deal with a mysterious French publisher: in exchange for his life and a fortune, he must write a book that will change people's lives.

The task is daunting and the stakes are perilously high. And as he begins to discover the secrets of the old abandoned mansion he lives in he finds himself falling deeper and deeper into the dark labyrinth of his soul.
Published 27 September 2010
ISBN 9781921656712
Format Paperback
Extent 464pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $30.00

About the author

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) was the author of eight novels, including the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet: The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heaven and The Labyrinth of the Spirits. His work, which also includes prizewinning young-adult novels, has been translated into more than fifty languages and published across the globe, garnering numerous awards and reaching millions of readers.
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Also by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Shadow of the Wind
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The City of Mist
Marina
The Watcher in the Shadows
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Prince of Mist
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Praise for The Angel's Game

Carlos is a natural-born storyteller . . .

Good Reading

Full of gothic features: darkness, ruined houses, locked rooms, the smell of damp earth and portentous conversations conducted by candlelight

The Times Literary Supplement

A heady brew of detective thriller; supernatural horror tale, magical realist fable and heartbreaking love story

Daily Mail

A tantalising tale of intrigue, set in the backstreets of seedy Barcelona… A book that fills your mind and cannot be put down

Courier Mail

A romantic hymn to Barcelona

Age

Marvellously evocative

Sydney Morning Herald

It will entrance and move you and make you chuckle. You couldn't ask for more

Sunday Age

. . . imaginative, skilfully plotted, spine-tinglingly mysterious, self-deprecatingly humorous and deeply romantic

Advertiser

Reading, for Zafon, is romance. Cinema, somewhat reluctantly, is admitted to the club. But television is the enemy of all that this generous and gripping novel celebrates

Weekend Australian

. . . atmospheric, beguiling and thoroughly readable . . .

The Observer