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Loading... The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel (original 2011; edition 2013)by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Author)
Work InformationThe Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2011)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While a great continuation of characters from his two previous novels, Zafon stumbles a bit here in trying too much (in my opinion) and ends up making a novel that demands more resolution than is provided. That's the only thing that's knocked this down from 4 starts to 3 for me. ( ) I wondered if I'd get through this one as it was a bit dark, a bit lagging, and a bit cheesy---but in the end, everything came together for a pretty satisfying read. While refreshing myself on the plots of the previous two stories online, I found that there's a fourth and final book to be released in the coming year! Yay! At over 800 pages (paperback) I hope it knocks our socks off... https://www.instagram.com/p/CxIrUbrr7MY/ Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Prisoner of Heaven: This installment felt like the most regular thriller of the series, but anything Zafón does is far and above most authors of thrillers. #cursorybookreviews #cursoryreviews El prisionero del cielo Carlos Ruiz Zafón Publicado: 2011 | 254 páginas Novela Intriga Serie: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados #3 /sL2QN79Y_ZG4 Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra inexorablemente a enfrentarse con la mayor de las sombras: la que está creciendo en su interior. Rebosante de intriga y emoción, El Prisionero del Cielo es una novela magistral donde los hilos de La Sombra del Viento y El Juego del Ángel convergen a través del embrujo de la literatura y nos conduce hacia el enigma que se oculta en el corazón de El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Ik denk dat ik het eerste deel van dit boek ooit eerder gelezen heb, ik had namelijk continu het idee dat ik het al eens had gelezen, maar ik wist totaal niet hoe het verhaal verder zou gaan. Vanaf zo'n beetje het midden had ik niet meer zo'n déjà vu en sleepte het verhaal me ook veel meer mee. Het las makkelijker dan de eerste 2 delen en het is absoluut een intrigerend verhaal. Ik geniet van de schrijfstijl van Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Hij beschrijft zeer beeldend de omgeving en de sfeer waarin de hoofdpersonen zich bevinden. Ik ga absoluut deel 4 ook nog eens lezen, maar omdat zijn boeken me toch steeds wat moeite kosten, ik denk ook vooral om de vaak toch wat naargeestige sfeer, zal het nog wel even duren voor ik aan deel 4 begin.
While the reader should not expect many shocking plot twists, the story is gripping and the pace is just right. Further, the magic of the novel is in the wonderfully constructed creepy and otherworldly setting, the likable characters, and the near-perfect dialogue. Like his countryman Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Zafón combines sincere engagement with genre tradition, with clever touches of the literary postmodern. (The novel's epigraph is by a fictional writer who featured in The Shadow of the Wind.) This is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them (say, how to follow someone in the street), and what is lost when they are lost. Much of the novel's appeal is that of time-travelling tourism, strongly flavoured with literary nostalgia – for a time when a bookshop could be a city's cultural nerve-centre, when a paper-based bureaucracy could be outwitted, when bohemian scribblers could afford to eat world-class crème caramels, and even when money could be "cursed". But beneath the sugared surface there is also political anger. A rousing adventure that reads as if Jorge Borges were writing in the mode of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose. wondrous... ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero. Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges...Ruiz Zafón gives us a panoply of alluring and savage personages and stories. His novel eddies in currents of passion, revenge and mysteries whose layers peel away onion-like yet persist in growing back... we are taken on a wild ride that executes its hairpin bends with breathtaking lurches. Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher Series
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. No library descriptions found. |
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