Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the listener compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaud r̕eluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece.
adult
Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Read by Daniel Weyman.
