西班牙: The City of Mist
The City of Mist is an extraordinary collection that offers eleven brief but vivid glimpses into the hidden corners of Barcelona, past and present. The book is Ruiz Zafon's tribute to the countless thousands of readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey through the mysterious gothic world of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudì reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece.
作者:
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was born in Barcelona in 1964. In the 1990s he moved to Los Angeles where he worked briefly in screen writing and was a novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics.朗讀者:
