Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Marina cover art

Marina

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch cover art
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said cover art
Invitation to a Beheading cover art
The Path of Thorns cover art
All the Murmuring Bones cover art
Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure cover art
The Poisonwood Bible cover art
Babylon Berlin cover art
Pilgrim: The Collected Series 1-4 cover art
Relic cover art
Summer of Night cover art
The Night Raven cover art
A Man Lay Dead cover art
Transference cover art
Slapstick cover art
Against All Gods cover art

Summary

We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine . . .

In May 1980, 15-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 and at 10 am, a coach pulled by 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 Óscar 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.

Audiobook read by Daniel Weyman.
©2008 Dragonworks, S.L. (P)2013 Orion Publishing Group

What listeners say about Marina

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    136
  • 4 Stars
    47
  • 3 Stars
    13
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    153
  • 4 Stars
    23
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    117
  • 4 Stars
    45
  • 3 Stars
    12
  • 2 Stars
    3
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Another cracker

Another beautiful story to get lost in the streets of. If you like others from this author you will like this. Elements of the supernatural in this one but written with the same gothic elegance as shadow of the wind.
Read beautifully too. For me Dan Stephens is Zafons voice but this is equally as well read and was a feast for the ears

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful

He jaunt writes beautiful novels. The story itself is almost incidental to the stunning prose and rich settings. If you've read Shadow Of The Wind, you'll probably like this and vice versa, though Shadow Of The Wind is far superior.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Young Love

This is a beautiful story with some strange subject matters. The city of Barcelona is brought to life in the descriptions of buildings and streets. The "puppets" of Mical Covenique are enough to send a shiver down the spine, the cat Kafka is as all cats are aloof and inscrutable. The painter Herman's life is realistic as are the descriptions of his wife but through the it all shines an interesting girl Marina and her interactions no adventures, with Oscar. A great read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

a walk into the past steps

an amazing story of Gothic barcalona,the skill of words that zafon raises is bewitching in itself.
this will keep the lights on in your room,whilst wanting you to be alone as you travel though Oscars adventure.
you never know who to trust in this story.
the author is quite simply brilliant.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Mr
  • 28-08-15

another unique gem from CRZ

enchanting and with surprises as always. although beautifully translated I'm tempted to learn Spanish so I can enjoy the original text

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent narration brings the story to life

I have listened to this twice. love it.
Daniel Weyman is a great narrator. X

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Beautifully Written

Marina is a beautifully written story and Carlos's words will draw you back to a forgotten Spain. Marina is a truly sad tale but well worth the read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Didn't quite live up to my expectations

Where does Marina rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I've definitely listened to better stories. Some of the books I listened to made me really look forward to my daily train commutes. This book didn't. But overall it was solid. I don't regret having bought it.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I would have made it less grotesque. A lot of the elements in the story could be described as 'horror'. Though I like an element of magic in a book, this story really pushed my suspension of disbelief to the limits. Even if the message was clear and I understand why the writer chose to tell the story like this, I was so thrown off by the unrealistic course of events that I couldn't enjoy the story as much as I wanted to.

What does Daniel Weyman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

He is a very good narrator. He made this story a lot more enjoyable. I'm not sure I would have finished reading the book but listening to him made it a good overall experience.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Safe bet

Ruiz Zafón, Graves And Weyman do it again. Imperious trident. Great story, great writing and excellent narration.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

A grotesque thriller with a great story line

I'm not supposed to read this book because it is categoriesd as 'young fiction ' but actually its a moving and evocative piece of dark fantasy which is genuinely scary at times.

It is 1979 and our narrator, Oscar, is a thoughtful fifteen year old orphan living at a dull boarding school in Barcelona. But he wanders into a semi-derelict house where he meets Marina. She is a clever, feisty girl of similar age. They strike up a touching friendship and Marina lives with, and cares for, her kindly and eccentric widowed father who is an artist infatuated by his late wife.

Marina takes Oscar on a walk to a cemetery where they witness the ritual of a strange lady in black who they follow and quickly become embroiled in bizarre scary places and pursuits.

The novel then has a parallel story of Mijail Kolvenik a brilliant pioneer of orthopaedic prosthetics and his beautiful and talented opera singer wife. He is obsessed with deformities and immortality. His tragic and bizarre life story comes crashing into the present time and Oscar and Marina's relationship develops as they unravel the tale.

No spoilers here but the ending is sad and unexpected.

It is a grotesque thriller with a great story line and a touching theme. It does go 'over the top' on some occasions but I think this was probably because the author, or publisher, was trying to appeal to the young adult and horror genres.
The reading is spot on.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!