Fantasy

Marina

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Description

In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Óscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts... His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m. precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings. When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorChilling
SpiceWholesome/Clean

Details

First published
1999
Pages
331
Reading time
About 7 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Young Adult
Publisher
Distribooks
ISBN
9782266213028
Series
Standalone

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