Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books, he wants to buy this expensive edition.
He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet, a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. However something appears to be bothering him.ĭaniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year.
They have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea have married. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a journey fraught with jealousy, suspicion, vengeance, and lies, a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives.įull of intrigue and emotion, The Prisoner of Heaven is a majestic novel in which the threads of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game converge under the spell of literature and bring us toward the enigma of the mystery hidden at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a collection of lost treasures known only to its few initiates and the very core of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's enchanting fictional world.The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940's and the dark early days of Franco's dictatorship.
But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate.
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