Carlos Marrodan Casas Livres

Dans la Barcelone de l'après-guerre civile, "ville des prodiges" marquée par la défaite, la vie est difficile, les haines rôdent toujours. Par un matin brumeux de 1945, un homme emmène son petit garçon, Daniel Sempere, le narrateur, dans un lieu mystérieux du quartier gothique : le Cimetière des Livres Oubliés. L'enfant, qui rêve toujours de sa mère morte, est ainsi convié par son père, modeste boutiquier de livres d'occasion, à un étrange rituel qui se transmet de génération en génération : il doit y "adopter" un volume parmi des centaines de milliers. Là, il rencontre le livre qui va changer le cours de sa vie, le marquer à jamais et l'entraîner dans un labyrinthe d'aventures et de secrets "enterrés dans l'âme de la ville" : L'Ombre du Vent.

Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón's tale of one magical summer that turns into a nightmare when a young girl discovers the secrets locked into a reclusive toymaker's mansion. A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created... an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old lighthouse stands... a shadowy creature that hides deep in the woods... these are the elements of a mystery that bind 14-year-old Irene to Ismael during one magical summer spent in the Blue Bay. Irene's mother has taken a job as a housekeeper for the toymaker, Lazarus, but his house contains more secrets than Irene and Ishmael have bargained for.

Max Carver's father, a watchmaker & inventor, decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann. But the house holds many secrets & stories of its own.