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Marina [Marine]

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Narrated by: Marcel Navarro
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Publisher's summary

Del exitoso autor de La sombra del viento llega el intrigante misterio que lo inició todo....

"Todos tenemos un secreto enterrado bajo llave en el ático de nuestra alma. Este es el mío." 

Cuando Óscar desaparece de repente, nadie sabe de el por siete días y siete noches.

En la Barcelona de 1980 Óscar Drai sueña despierto, deslumbrado por los palacetes modernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica delicada de salud. Ella lo lleva a un cementerio donde juntos son testigos de un macabro ritual que sucede el último domingo de cada mes sin falta. A las diez de la mañana una mujer vestida de negro desciende de su carosa y le pone una sola rosa a un panteón sin nombre. 

Cuando deciden seguirla, juntos comparten la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafío imaginable, pero su ambición lo arrastró por sendas siniestras cuyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavía hoy.

From the best-selling author of The Shadow of the Wind comes the intriguing mystery that started it all....

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."

Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly 10 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 best seller. 

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2014 Carlos Ruiz Zafón (P)2020 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Marina es uno de esos libros que devoras rápidamente, y te quita el hambre que tuviste de una buena lectura. Una excelente historia. El estilo narrativo de Zafón es simplemente hermoso y el lenguaje que utiliza es totalmente fluido." (The Guardian, UK)

"Un cuento mágico." (Glamour)

"Los lectores que disfrutaron de La sombra del viento encontraran sombras de ese mágico bestseller en este cuento gótico." (Choice Magazine)

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Sin duda alguna hay que leerlo o escucharlo!

Una de las mejores novelas que he tenido el placer de escuchar.
Aunque te deja con el corazón destrozado.

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Thrilling

Such a creative, thrilling, hopeless romantic novel. I’m a big fan of other Ruiz Zafon novels and this one didn’t disappoint!

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bueno

este titular me comobio mucho muy buena historia recomiendo rste libro a todoslos que les guste libros emocionantes

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Beautifully written and narrated

I cannot say enough about Ruíz Zafón’s prose - it’s just simply exquisite. He elevates the Spanish language and provides a beautiful description of Barcelona, the one he knew.

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Zafon classic

The gothic takes of Barcelona with unrequited love and beauty- it’s a great story as told by on of the best writers of this generation that left us too soon .

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Buena compañía...

En estos tiempos tan inciertos para la humanidad, este libro me ha hecho compañía y lo recordaré por siempre.

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Zafon in my memory

A great writer capable of moving your feelings and make your heart tremble. Gone too soon, but we still have his writings, like this one, Marina, supposedly written for the youth... but I'm almost 80 and I'm moved and almost in tears. Not for reading at night, difficult to sleep with the emotions he was capable to arouse.

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todo es muy inesperado!

todo lo que uno imagina en el inicio es completamente equivocado, un libro bastante bueno

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Marina

Marina, me cautivó desde el principio . Me encanta la manera de escribir que tenia Carlos Ruiz Zafón .

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Excelente libro pero. ….

Marina, de ninguna manera forma parte de la series El Cementario de los Libros Olvidados. Audible lo tiene como la segunda entrega de la series pero no tiene nada que ver y fue publicado anteriormente. El libro que sigue La Sombra del Viento es El Juego de los Ángeles. Eso dicho, me gustó mucho Marina pero es muy distinto.

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