Marina
Author | : Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316320177 |
ISBN-13 | : 031632017X |
Rating | : 4/5 (17X Downloads) |
Download or read book Marina written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller. "We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine." Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's out exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly 10 o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave. 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.