Marina

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Mystery, friendship, and discovering hidden truths.

Marina could be a good read for those who love mystery novels with elements of friendship and young love. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's writing style creates a vivid image of postwar Barcelona and the characters' journey into the unknown. The storyline is unique and filled with surprises.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Marina

Regular price RM38.17 MYR
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ISBN: 9781780224275
Publisher: Phoenix
Date of Publication: 2014-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Gothic, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 75160 readers)

Description

In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drei suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts. It all began the previous autumn when, while exploring the dilapidated grounds of what seemed to be an abandoned house filled with portraits, he inadvertently stole a gold pocket watch. Thus begins Oscar's friendship with Marina and her father Herman Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to the gardens of the nearby cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m., a coach drives up to the cemetery and a woman with her face shrouded, wearing gloves, and holding a single rose is helped down from the coach and walks over to a nameless gravestone, where she sets down the flower, pauses for a moment, and then returns to the coach. The gravestone bears no marking but the outline of a strange-looking butterfly with open wings. On one of their subsequent walks Oscar and Marina spot the same woman and determine to follow her. Thereupon begins their journey into the woman's past, and that of the object of her devotion. It is a journey that takes them to the heights of a forgotten, postwar-Barcelona society, of now aged or departed aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and into the depths of the city's mysterious underground of labyrinthine sewers, corrupt policemen, beggars' hovels, and criminal depravity.
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Mystery, friendship, and discovering hidden truths.

Marina could be a good read for those who love mystery novels with elements of friendship and young love. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's writing style creates a vivid image of postwar Barcelona and the characters' journey into the unknown. The storyline is unique and filled with surprises.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.