The midnight palace

R$ 119,90

Sinopse

The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake entrusts them Aryami Bose. Sixteen years later we meet the boy, Ben, and his friends. They have formed a secret club, The Chowbar Society, which meets each week at midnight in the old ruin they have christened The Midnight Palace. Then Aryami Bose turns up with Sheere, Ben's sister, and tells them the story of the parents they never knew. Their father was an engineer and writer who died in tragic circumstances at the inauguration of Jheeter's Gate station. But as the novel unfolds, there is more to their history than meets the eye and they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins.

Participantes

Autor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tradutor: Lucia Graves

Autor

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Carlos Ruiz Zafón nasceu em Barcelona, em 1964. Em 1993, ganhou o prêmio Ebedé de literatura com seu primeiro romance, O Príncipe da Névoa, que vendeu mais de 150.000 exemplares na Espanha e foi traduzido em vários idiomas. Desde então, publicou quatro romances e transformou-se em uma das maiores revelações literárias dos últimos tempos com A Sombra do Vento, finalista dos prêmios literários espanhóis Fernando Lara 2001 e Llibreter 2002. O autor vive atualmente em Los Angeles, onde escreve roteiros para o cinema e trabalha em um novo romance. Zafón colabora também nos jornais espanhóis La Vanguardia e El País.