Marina - Hardcover

Praise for Marina
A 2015 ABC Best Book for Young Readers
"This sweeping gothic mystery...delivers gritty atmosphere, perilous action, [and] propulsive storytelling."--Booklist

"A great tale of mystery, suspense, and romance.... spell-binding."--Library Media Connection

"High-quality gothic genre fiction with a classic Mary Shelley sensibility."--Kirkus Reviews

* "This beautifully written work of historical fiction is impossible to put down."--School Library Journal, starred review

* "Zafón is a master of both the subtle simile and the outrageous image.... Unlikely discoveries in mysterious, half-ruined mansions alternate with spine-tingling action sequences to create a grotesquerie that will delight horror fans."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Fans of Neil Gaiman will devour this book, and it deserves a place next to popular mysteries."--VOYA, starred review

"Delivers scares in spades.... [An] immersive, truly terrifying tale."--The Bulletin

"Zafón weaves a twisted tapestry of gothic horror, quickly paced, with intricate layers of carefully crafted stories within stories."--The Horn Book

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights.
His story begins when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of the city. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.
When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--an reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.