MARINA by Carlos RUIZ ZAFON

MARINA by Carlos RUIZ ZAFON - Translated from Spanish by François Maspero - Éditions Pocket (12 avenue d’Italie, Paris) - 2012 - 282 pages – Softcover. Intern at the boarding school, Óscar loves to sneak out, wander through the deserted streets, pine forests, the villas of a neglected neighborhood. All it takes is a cat and a gold watch for him to fall into wonderland. A kingdom haunted by dead loves, a mad scientist and the ghosts of Gaudí. A Barcelona of dreams and nightmares, theater and cemetery, subterranean and baroque, from which only the memory of his guide will escape: the unforgettable Marina...