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The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons.

Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find.

From the international best-selling author of The Shadow of the Wind. Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop, is happily married and has a son. No longer the child who discovered the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he is still haunted by the mysterious death of his mother when he was six years old. Meanwhile his best friend and accomplice, Fermin, is about to marry the love of his life. But something appears to be bothering him....

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

Cette nuit j'ai rêvé que je retournais au Cimetière des Livres oubliés... Dans la Barcelone franquiste des années de plomb, la disparition d'un ministre déchaîne une cascade d'assassinats, de représailles et de mystères. Mais pour contrer la censure, la propagande et la terreur, la jeune Alicia Gris, tout droit sortie des entrailles de ce régime nauséabond, est habile à se jouer des miroirs et des masques. Son enquête l'amène à croiser la route du libraire Daniel Sempere.

The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before The Shadow of the Wind. 'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. 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 Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the "cemetery of lost books", a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out La Sombra del Viento by Julian Carax.

Calcutta, May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patricks orphanage.

Internationally acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to be wed.

Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife, that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house, Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star....

"Vindens skygge" af Carlos Ruiz Zafon er din nye yndlingsroman: En fænomenal, velskrevet og smuk historie om kærlighed, mystik og ikke mindst om mennesket. Daniel vokser op i Barcelona, i efterdønningerne af Den Spanske Borgerkrig. Han er alene med sin far; En rar og følsom mand, som har viet sit liv til at være antikvarboghandler. En dag tager han Daniel med til De Glemte Bøgers Kirkegård, og her finder Daniel den bog, der skal ændre hans liv for bestandig.

A Barcellona una mattina d'estate del 1945 il proprietario di un negozio di libri usati conduce il figlio undicenne, Daniel, al Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati, un luogo segreto dove vengono sottratti all'oblio migliaia di volumi di cui il tempo ha cancellato il ricordo. E qui Daniel entra in possesso di un libro "maledetto" che cambierà il corso della sua vita.

Barcellona, fine anni '50. Daniel Sempere non è più il ragazzino che abbiamo conosciuto tra i cunicoli del "Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati", alla scoperta del volume che gli avrebbe cambiato la vita. Il mistero della morte di sua madre Isabella ha aperto una voragine nella sua anima, un abisso dal quale la moglie Bea e il fedele amico Fermín stanno cercando di salvarlo.

"Midnatspaladset" begynder i Calcutta i 1930'erne og er historien om de to tvillingesøskende Ben og Sheere, der bliver skilt ad, da deres forældre omkommer. Sheere vokser op hos deres bedstemor, mens Ben bliver anbragt på et børnehjem. De to søskende genforenes på deres 16 års fødselsdag, men det, der skulle have været starten på et lykkeligt møde, bliver starten på en kamp mod onde magter. Deres forfølger Jawahal dukker nemlig op.

Barcelona i slutningen af 1950‘erne. Daniel Sempere, drengen der opdagede en bog, som kom til at forandre hans liv, er i gang med at afdække mysteriet om sin mors død. Et mysterium, der har åbnet en sorg og en afgrund i hans sjæl. Da Alicia Gris dukker op, skal hun vise sig at være den person, der hjælper ham med at finde forklaringen på familiens hemmelige historie - men til en meget høj pris. Åndernes labyrinter en fortælling fuld af lidenskab, intriger og eventyr. Denne roman afslutter Carlos Ruiz Zafóns store saga, De glemte bøgers kirkegård, der blev indledt medVindens skygge i 2004.

"Tågens fyrste" er en vaskeægte spøgelseshistorie og første bind i en trilogi. Året er 1943, og i familien Carvers nye hus fornemmer man ånden efter de tidligere beboere, især sønnen Jacob, der druknede under mystiske omstændigheder. Med hjælp fra deres nye ven Roland går de tre Carver-børn i gang med at efterforske dødsfaldet, og de møder "Tågens fyrste", en djævelsk figur, som er vendt tilbage for at hævne fortiden. Snart trækkes de tre venner ind i et eventyr, der vil ændre deres liv for evigt.

A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the magical beings he has created...a sickly wife locked away in a hidden room...an enigma involving strange lights that shine out from the small island on which an old, disused lighthouse stands...a shadowy creature that hides deep in the woods...These are the elements of a mystery will bind 14-year-old Irene to Ismael during one magical summer spent in Blue Bay when her mother takes a job as a housekeeper for the enigmatic toymaker, Lazarus Jann.

An einem dunstigen Sommermorgen des Jahres 1945 wird der junge Daniel Sempere von seinem Vater an einen geheimnisvollen Ort in Barcelona geführt - den Friedhof der Vergessenen Bücher. Dort entdeckt Daniel den Roman eines verschollenen Autors für sich, er heißt "Der Schatten des Windes", und er wird sein Leben verändern...

Max und seine Familie ziehen in ein altes Haus am Meer, auf der Flucht vor dem Krieg. Hier herrscht Frieden, so scheint es zunächst...

Nella tumultuosa Barcellona degli anni Venti, il giovane David Martín cova un sogno, inconfessabile quanto universale: diventare uno scrittore. Quando la sorte inaspettatamente gli offre l'occasione di pubblicare un suo racconto, il successo comincia ad arridergli. È proprio da quel momento tuttavia che la sua vita inizierà a porgli interrogativi ai quali non ha immediata risposta, esponendolo come mai prima di allora a imprevedibili azzardi e travolgenti passioni, crimini efferati e sentimenti assoluti, lungo le strade di una Barcellona ora familiare, più spesso inquietante.