MARINA by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
In May 1980, fifteen-year-old
Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his barding school in Barcelona. For
seven days and seven nights no one knows his whereabouts...
His story begins in an old
quarter of the city, where he meets the strange Marina and her father,
Germán Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to
watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At
exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a coach pulled by black horses
appears. From it descends a woman, her face shrouded be a black velvet
cloak. Holding a single rose, she walks to a gravestone that bears no
name, only a mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.
When Oscar and Marina decide to
follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten,
postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and
tycoons--and reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious
labyrinth beneath the city streets.
Written just before The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.