As I previously announced HERE The Prisoner of Heaven (Orion, 2012) has been released today 21 June 2012 in the UK. If you’ve read The Shadow of the Wind and you have enjoyed it, I understand that this one, the third instalment in his trilogy after The Angel’s Game, is as good as his first one. FWIW I’m not particular keen in reading it at this moment, but this is only a matter of taste and time constraints from my side.
Category: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books
The Prisoner of Heaven, the brand new novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, joins his previous books The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game which revolve around the Sempere & Sons bookshop in Barcelona. It begins one year after the close of The Shadow of the Wind when a mysterious stranger enters the shop, looking for a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.
The blurb reads: Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere and his friend Fermin, the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind , are back on a new adventure to face the greatest challenge of their lives. Just when everything begins to smile, a disturbing character visits the Sempere’s bookshop and threatens to reveal a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the dark memory of the city. When knowing the truth, Daniel realises that his destiny leads inexorably to face the greatest of the shadows: the one that is growing inside him. (My free translation).
The Prisoner of Heaven has just been released in Spain, the English language version will be out in the UK on 21/06/2012.
See additional information at Carlos Ruiz Zafón official website (in English).
A Crime is Afoot 