The Midnight Palace
Publishers Weekly Zafón (The Prince of Mist) delivers an often creepy adventure, first published in Spain in 1994, populated with some wonderful characters. In British-occupied Calcutta in 1916, a soldier saves two babies (at the cost of his own life), and the children's grandmother leaves one at an orphanage to throw off the evil person […]
The Angel's Game
The New York Times – Terrence Rafferty: In The Angel?s Game, as in his previous novel, The Shadow of the Wind, he spins a fantastically elaborate plot from a slender, whimsical idea. Here it?s the notion that a writer might, on a bad day, succumb to a sense of futility about the value of his […]
The Shadow of the Wind
The Washington Post: ? anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should. ? Michael Dirda