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Marina

Author: Ruiz Zafon, Carlos

Follett Number: 0906YS6
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC, 2015
Format: 290 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-10191-058-0
ISBN-10: 1-10191-058-5
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Barcelona (Spain) Fiction
Cemeteries Spain Barcelona Fiction
Detective and Mystery Fiction
Horror Fiction
Spanish Language Materials
Teenagers Spain Barcelona Fiction
Text in Spanish. In May of 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai leaves his Barcelona boarding school and embarks on an adventure with a girl named Marina, whom he has just met, to solve the mystery of a strange monthly ritual and the veiled woman who conducts it.

From the publisher:
Cuando scar desaparece de repente, nadie sabe de el por siete d as y siete noches. En la Barcelona de 1980 scar Drai sue a 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 ltimo domingo de cada mes sin falta. A las diez de la ma ana una mujer vestida de negro desciende de su carosa y le pone una sola rosa a un pante n 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 desaf o imaginable, pero su ambici n lo arrastr por sendas siniestras cuyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todav a hoy.

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