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- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesA record print run
The planned first print run was one million copies, a record in Spanish publishing. It hit stores on April 17, 2008.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSeven years later
It came out seven years after The Shadow of the Wind. Lucia Graves translated it into English again, in 2009.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe same bookshop
The Sempere & Sons bookshop in the Raval and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books are back here, decades before The Shadow of the Wind.
source ↗ - SetupThe angel pin
Corelli always wears a silver pin shaped like an angel with open wings. Watch where that angel turns up.
source ↗ - SetupThe assistant
Isabella, the girl who insists on becoming David's assistant, is the link between this book and The Shadow of the Wind.
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- Behind the scenesA worldwide bestseller
The Shadow of the Wind came out in 2001 and has sold more than 25 million copies, in over 36 languages.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA hit in English
Lucia Graves's English translation came out in 2004. It sold more than a million copies in the UK alone.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA labyrinth with many doors
Zafón said the books in the series can be read in any order or on their own. Each one is a different door into the same labyrinth of stories.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe author's favorite
Fermín Romero de Torres, the beggar who ends up working at the bookshop, was Zafón's favorite character. He said Fermín was the one with the most of himself in him.
source ↗ - SetupA name taken from a book
Notice the name of the faceless man hunting Carax's books: Laín Coubert. It's the name of a character in one of Carax's own novels.
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- Behind the scenesAnother million
The first print run, for Spain and Latin America, was one million copies. It came out on November 17, 2011.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe brightest one
When it came out, the Spanish press called it the brightest book in the series, and the one that unlocks keys to the earlier ones.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Count of Monte Cristo
It all starts with a stranger who buys a rare copy of The Count of Monte Cristo and inscribes it to Fermín. Dumas's novel shapes much of the book.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe prisoner of the title
David Martín from The Angel's Game turns up in Montjuïc prison. What we see of him here makes you rethink how far to trust that book's narrator.
source ↗ - SetupRemember this name
Mauricio Valls, the prison governor who wants to be a writer, doesn't leave the stage when the book ends. That name comes back later.
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- Behind the scenesSame-day launch
It came out the same day in Spain and Latin America, November 17, 2016. The English version didn't arrive until September 2018.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe doorstopper
The Spanish edition runs 928 pages, more than double The Prisoner of Heaven. Zafón called it the hardest book he ever wrote.
source ↗ - ReferenceEvery thread
Zafón said this book ties up all the elements, plots, characters and threads of the three earlier books.
source ↗ - ReferenceSaved by Fermín
Alicia Gris, the new lead, was saved by Fermín when she was a child. It's one of the bridges between her and the Semperes.
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- Behind the scenesA posthumous book
Zafón died on June 19, 2020, in Los Angeles. The City of Mist came out in Spain five months later, on November 17.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAll the stories together
The book collects Zafón's short stories for the first time, and some had never been published.
source ↗ - ReferenceCervantes and Gaudí
In one story, a mysterious gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other. In another, Gaudí sails to New York.
source ↗ - ReferenceEchoes of the series
The publisher says the stories carry echoes of the great characters and motifs of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. One follows an architect fleeing Constantinople with plans for an impregnable library.
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