Prince of Mist - Brossura

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz

Brossura

ISBN 10: 029785643X ISBN 13: 9780297856436

Casa editrice: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010

Riassunto

The novel begins when Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. They move into a house that was built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but 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. When he goes to investigate, Max finds that the statues seem to consist of a kind of circus troop. In the centre of the garden is the large statue of a clown set in another six-pointed star. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. As the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns; his sister has unsettling dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. But Max spends most of his time with his new friend Roland, who takes him diving to the wreck of a boat that sank close to the coast in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. During the dive, Max sees something that leaves him cold - on the old mast floats a tattered flag and on it is the symbol of the circle and six-pointed star. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of a legendary figure called Prince of the Mists begins to emerge.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A haunting story about the secrets of a ghostly ship

L'autore:

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÔN was born in Barcelona and is the award-winning author of five books. After Don Quixote, The Shadow of the Wind is the most successful Spanish novel ever, and has sold ten million copies worldwide. It has been translated into over forty languages, received numerous international awards and has been on the bestseller lists of several countries for more than four years.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 029785643X
• ISBN 13: 9780297856436
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288