"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.
