Was lucky enough to win an Early Reviewers copy of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s new novel, The Angel’s Game. Zafon is the author of the widely admired novel, The Shadow of the Wind, in which a young boy acquires a book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and has the rest of his life shaped by that event. I just received the Angel’s Game and consumed the first 100 pages last night. Very promising start….
In 2004, Carlos Ruiz Zafon made a spectacular English language debut with The Shadow of the Wind, a brilliantly constructed novel set in Barcelona in the aftermath of World War II. Its central symbol and most indelible image was an intricate Borgesian labyrinth called The Cemetery of Forgotten …
