# The Prisoner of Heaven

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- Book: [The Prisoner of Heaven](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon/the-prisoner-of-heaven) ([The Prisoner of Heaven.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon/the-prisoner-of-heaven.md))
- Authors: [Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-ruiz-zafon), [Peter Kenny](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-kenny)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-285-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-04-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN 'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POST Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a a mysterious figure with a porcelain hand enters the Sempere bookshop, threatening to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s - the early days of Franco's dictatorship and the very heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The Prisoner of Heaven is a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.