# Marina

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- Book: [Marina](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon/marina) ([Marina.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon/marina.md))
- Authors: [Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon), [Daniel Weyman](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-weyman)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-426-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-02-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine . . . In May 1980, 15-year-old Óscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts . . . His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to a cemetery and at 10 am, a coach pulled by horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings. When Óscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets. From the bestselling author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND comes a haunting gothic mystery - now an international BookTok sensation.